Sonographic Detection of Pneumothorax and Hemothorax in Microgravity

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 3 SEC. I, 2004, Pages 272-277

  Hamilton, Douglas R ^a   Sargsyan, Ashot E ^a   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^b   Nicolaou, Savvas ^e   Campbell, Mark ^a   Dawson, David L ^d   Melton, Shannon L ^a   Beck, George ^f   Guess, Terry ^a   Rasbury, Jack ^a   Dulchavsky, Scott A ^c  

^a WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f Impact Instrumentation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest tube; Hemothorax; Microgravity; Pneumothorax; Space medicine; Trauma; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG VOLUME; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; RELIABILITY; SPACE FLIGHT; SWINE; THORAX INJURY;

NASA DISCIPLINE LIFE SCIENCES TECHNOLOGIES; NON-NASA CENTER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; SHORT DURATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMOTHORAX; PNEUMOTHORAX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPACE FLIGHT; SWINE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 12144290523     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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