A case of blunt cardiac rupture

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 41-43

  Podboy, Marie M ^a  

^a Mercy Air Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE PILOT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INJURY; HEART RUPTURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141502432     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1067-991X(03)00025-7     Document Type: Review

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