Life-saving treatment by fluid resuscitation and a thoracotomy in a case of deep pulmonary laceration

Tokai Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 65-69

  Nishiumi, Noboru ^a,b   Takeichi, Haruka ^a   Otsuka, Hiroyuki ^a   Iwasaki, Masayuki ^a   Inokuchi, Sadaki ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS); Blunt trauma; Deep pulmonary laceration; Fluid resuscitation; Indication of emergency thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG INJURY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RIB FRACTURE; THORACIC CAVITY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; LACERATIONS; LIVER; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PNEUMONECTOMY; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; THORACOTOMY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34249020523     PISSN: 03850005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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