Performance of Abdominal Ultrasonography in Blunt Trauma Patients with Out-of-Hospital or Emergency Department Hypotension

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 354-361

  Holmes, James F ^a,b   Harris, Dawn ^a   Battistella, Felix D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PERITONEAL FLUID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 1442287107     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.09.011     Document Type: Article

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