Emergency department thoracotomy for gunshot wounds of the heart and great vessels

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1514-1515

  Seamon, Mark J ^a   Goldberg, Amy J ^a   Schwab, C William ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; EMERGENCY WARD; FIREARM; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; LETTER; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; THORACOTOMY; VIOLENCE;

CORONARY VESSELS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL FUTILITY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 77953750775     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181dbe0d4     Document Type: Letter

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