Emergency ultrasound in the acute assessment of haemothorax

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-46

  Brooks, Adam ^a   Davies, B ^a   Smethhurst, M ^a   Connolly, J ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPINE POSITION; THORACOTOMY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; EMERGENCIES; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0842308027     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2003.005438     Document Type: Article

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