Is emergency department resuscitative thoracotomy futile care for the critically injured patient requiring prehospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-215

  Powell, Danny W ^a   Moore, Ernest E ^a   Cothren, C Clay ^a   Ciesla, David J ^a   Burch, Jon M ^a   Moore, John B ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASYSTOLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STAB WOUND; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3242727904     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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