Longterm Outcomes after Combat Casualty Emergency Department Thoracotomy

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 188-197

  Edens, Jason W ^a   Beekley, Alec C ^b   Chung, Kevin K ^a   Cox, E Darrin ^c   Eastridge, Brian J ^a   Holcomb, John B ^a   Blackbourne, Lorne H ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c 745th Forward Surgical Team ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLOOD; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN FUNCTION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IRAQ; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SURVIVOR; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PENETRATING TRAUMA;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67651049053     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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