Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes for occult pneumothoraces in victims of major trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 917-924

  Ball, Chad G ^a   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^a   Laupland, Kevin B ^a   Fox, Daniel I ^b   Nicolaou, Savvas ^d   Anderson, Ian B ^d   Hameed, S Morad ^a   Kortbeek, John B ^a   Mulloy, Robert R ^a   Litvinchuk, Stacey ^a   Boulanger, Bernard R ^c  

^a FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d Foothills Medical Centre ^*

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Occult pneumothorax; Pneumothorax; Resuscitation; Thoracic injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT PNEUMOTHORACES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; RISK FACTOR; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURVIVAL; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; REGISTRIES; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 30044450707     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000174663.46453.86     Document Type: Review

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