Management of Emergency Department Patients With Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Needle Aspiration or Tube Thoracostomy?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Zehtabchi, Shahriar ^a   Rios, Claritza L ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DYSPNEA; EMBASE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDLINE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 37349018263     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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