Chest-tube insertion

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 357, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Dev, Shelly P ^a,b   Nascimiento Jr , Bartolomeu ^a   Simone, Carmine ^a   Chien, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ARTERY PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; DIAPHRAGM DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMERGENCY CARE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEURALGIA; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBE; TUBE REMOVAL; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PLEURA DISEASE; REVIEW; WOUND DRAINAGE;

CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; PLEURAL DISEASES;

EID: 35248887111     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMvcm071974     Document Type: Article

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