Emergency Department Thoracotomy

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-18

  Mejia, Juan C ^a   Stewart, Ronald M ^a   Cohn, Stephen M ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic occlusion; emergency department thoracotomy; pericardial tamponade; resuscitation; resuscitative thoracotomy; shock; thoracic hemorrhage; thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; LUNG HILUS; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERICARDIOTOMY; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PENETRATING TRAUMA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 41949140053     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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