Penetrating Thoracic Trauma

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-25

  Bastos, Renata ^a,b   Baisden, Clinton E ^a   Harker, Lori ^a   Calhoon, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Audie L Murphy VA Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

chest; emergency thoracotomy; gunshot wound; stab wound; thoracic; trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOKINASE;

AIR EMBOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; BLEEDING; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART MASSAGE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SELECTION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESUSCITATION; STAB WOUND; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PENETRATING TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA INJURY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

CARDIAC TAMPONADE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 41949085762     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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