Pulseless electrical activity, focused abdominal sonography for Trauma, and cardiac contractile activity as predictors of survival after trauma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1154-1157

  Schuster, Kevin M ^a   Lofthouse, Rebecca ^b   Moore, Christopher ^a   Lui, Felix ^a   Kaplan, Lewis J ^a   Davis, Kimberly A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pulseless electrical activity; Trauma; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADULT; ASYSTOLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DETERIORATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSELESS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PULSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 73949133631     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181c303e8     Document Type: Review

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