Diagnostic Dilemmas and Current Controversies in Blunt Chest Trauma

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 695-711

  McGillicuddy, Daniel ^a   Rosen, Peter ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AORTA INJURY; BREATHING EXERCISE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRUSH TRAUMA; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER INJURY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBE; X RAY;

EID: 34548441048     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2007.06.004     Document Type: Review

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