Emergency department thoracotomy: Still useful after abdominal exsanguination?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Seamon, Mark J ^a,b   Pathak, Abhijit S ^a   Bradley, Kevin M ^a   Fisher, Carol A ^a   Gaughan, John A ^a   Kulp, Heather ^a   Pieri, Paola G ^a   Santora, Thomas A ^a   Goldberg, Amy J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal exsanguination; Prelaparotomy emergency department thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART RHYTHM; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER INJURY; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; THORACOTOMY; VITAL SIGN;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 38149069010     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181606125     Document Type: Article

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