FAST scan: Is it worth doing in hemodynamically stable blunt trauma patients?

Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 695-701

  Natarajan, Bala ^a   Gupta, Prateek K ^a   Cemaj, Samuel ^a   Sorensen, Megan ^a   Hatzoudis, Georgios I ^a   Forse, Robert Armour ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RIB FRACTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN INJURY; URINARY TRACT INJURY; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; COMPLICATION; HEMOPERITONEUM; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77956648096     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.07.032     Document Type: Article

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