Is definitive abdominal evaluation required in blunt trauma victims undergoing urgent extra-abdominal surgery?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 707-711

  Schauer, Bobbie Ann ^a   Nguyen, Hien ^b   Wisner, David H ^a   Holmes, James F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal computed tomography; Abdominal trauma; Intra abdominal injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE SURGERY; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PANCREAS INJURY; PARALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 22544439673     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.03.523     Document Type: Article

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