Ultrasound to detect haemothorax after chest injury

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 581-582

  McEwan, Kirsty ^a   Thompson, Peter ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 34547561312     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.051334     Document Type: Short Survey

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