Swine models of hemorrhagic shock: To splenectomize or not to splenectomize, that is the question

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 895-896

  Devlin, John Joseph ^a   Kircher, Sara J ^a   Littlejohn, Lanny F ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

AORTA; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD VOLUME; CIRCULATION; CONVALESCENCE; CRYSTALLOID; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HEMOSTASIS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PLASMA VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; SPLENECTOMY; SWINE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 72449130025     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181b837ab     Document Type: Letter

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