Life-saving or life-threatening? Prehospital thoracostomy for thoracic trauma

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 305-306

  Perkins, Zane ^a,b   Gunning, Matthew ^b  

^a Specialised Trauma Air Rescue ^*  (South Africa)

^b West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; OXYGEN; SUXAMETHONIUM;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMUR FRACTURE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; CHEST TUBES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOSTOMY; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE;

EID: 34247211601     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.044768     Document Type: Article

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