Expedited Treatment of Lower Extremity Gunshot Wounds

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 209, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 740-745

  Sadjadi, Javid ^a   Cureton, Elizabeth L ^a   Dozier, Kristopher C ^a   Kwan, Rita O ^a   Victorino, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; BLOOD VESSELS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 70549095962     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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