Triage and Outcome of Patients with Mediastinal Penetrating Trauma

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 377-382

  Burack, Joshua H ^a   Kandil, Emad ^a   Sawas, Ahmed ^a   O'Neill, Patricia A ^a   Sclafani, Salvatore J A ^a   Lowery, Robert C ^a   Zenilman, Michael E ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAB WOUND; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDIASTINUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TRIAGE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 33846378067     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.107     Document Type: Article

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