Prehospital chest tube thoracostomy: Effective treatment or additional trauma?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 96-101

  Spanjersberg, Willem ^b   Ringburg, Akkie ^b   Bergs, Bert ^b   Krijen, Pita ^a   Schipper, Inger ^b   Ringburg, A N ^b   Steyerberg, E W ^b   Edwards, M J ^b   Schipper, I B ^a   Van Vugt, A B ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chest tube; Complications; Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS); Indications; Infections; Prehospital care; Trauma; Tube thoracostomy

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEMATOPNEUMOTHORAX; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

ADULT; CHEST TUBES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOSTOMY;

EID: 24644479295     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000171448.71301.13     Document Type: Article

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