Pulmonary trauma emergency department evaluation and management

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 291-313

  Ullman, Edward A ^a   Donley, Lawrence P ^b   Brady, William J ^b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; STEROID;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHUS INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FLAIL CHEST; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG INJURY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NERVE BLOCK; OCCULT PNEUMOTHORAX; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTTRAUMATIC PULMONARY PSEUDOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; THORACOTOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA INJURY;

EID: 0038012995     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8627(03)00016-6     Document Type: Review

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