Selective nonoperative management of torso gunshot wounds: When is it safe to discharge?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1301-1304

  Inaba, Kenji ^a   Barmparas, Galinos ^a   Foster, Alex ^a   Talving, Peep ^a   David, Jean Stephane ^b   Green, Donald ^a   Plurad, David ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical management; Gunshot wounds; Injury; Nonoperative; Observation time; Safe discharge; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; COLON INJURY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTESTINE INJURY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM INJURY; STOMACH INJURY; TRUNK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 77953786909     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181bbc529     Document Type: Article

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