Blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injuries: Early or delayed repair - Results of an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma prospective study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 967-973

  Demetriades, Demetrios ^a,b   Velmahos, George C ^a   Scalea, Thomas M ^a   Jurkovich, Gregory J ^a   Karmy Jones, Riyad ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G ^a   Hemmila, Mark R ^a   O'Connor, James V ^a   McKenney, Mark O ^a   Moore, Forrest O ^a   London, Jason ^a   Singh, Michael J ^a   Spaniolas, Konstantinos ^a   Keel, Marius ^a   Sugrue, Michael ^a   Wahl, Wendy L ^a   Hill, Jonathan ^a   Wall, Mathew J ^a   Moore, Ernest E ^a   Lineen, Edward ^a   Margulies, Daniel ^a   Malka, Valerie ^a   Chan, Linda S ^a   more..

^a American Association for the Surgery of Trauma   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early versus delayed repair; Outcomes; Traumatic thoracic aortic injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACERATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SEPTICEMIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURGERY; THERAPY DELAY; THORACIC AORTA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURIES; LACERATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651071772     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31817dc483     Document Type: Article

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