A portable handpump is effective in the evacuation of hemothorax in a swine model of penetrating chest injury

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 864-868

  Jaskille, Amin ^b   Rhee, Peter ^a,c   Koustova, Elena ^a   Hancock, Timothy ^a   Inocencio, Ryan ^a   Lewis, Troy A ^a   Seufert, Adam ^a   Alam, Hasan B ^a,b  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Battlefield; Combat casualty; Handpump; Hemothorax; Lung injury; Penetrating chest injury; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HANDPUMP; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HEMATOTHORAX; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG INJURY; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMP; PUMP DESIGN; SUCTION DRAINAGE; SWINE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; TUBE;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMOPNEUMOTHORAX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SWINE; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 0346272669     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000090036.55859.54     Document Type: Article

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