Management and outcome of spontaneous pneumothoraces at three urban EDs

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 449-457

  Paoloni, Richard ^a  

^a Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Pleural drainage; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PLEURODESIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHEST TUBES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DRAINAGE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 35148819101     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2007.01011.x     Document Type: Article

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