Half-a-dozen ribs: The breakpoint for mortality

Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 717-725

  Flagel, Benjamin T ^a   Luchette, Fred A ^a,b   Reed, R Lawrence ^a   Esposito, Thomas J ^a   Davis, Kimberly A ^a   Santaniello, John M ^a   Gamelli, Richard L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPYEMA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; RIB FRACTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RIB FRACTURES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 27544469244     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2005.07.022     Document Type: Article

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