Management of haemodynamically stable patients with abdominal stab wounds

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 269-275

  Mitra, Biswadev ^a,b,c   Gocentas, Robert ^b   O'Reilly, Gerard ^b   Cameron, Peter A ^b,c,d   Atkin, Chistopher ^d  

^a Emergency and Trauma Centre   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Laparoscopy; Laparotomy; Penetrating; Stab; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERITONEUM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAB WOUND; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRAUMA CENTERS; VICTORIA; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 34250308058     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2007.00965.x     Document Type: Article

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