Does temporary chest wall closure with or without chest packing improve survival for trauma patients in shock after emergent thoracotomy?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 705-709

  Lang, Jennifer L ^a   Gonzalez, Richard P ^b   Aldy, Kim N ^a   Carroll, Elizabeth A ^a   Eastman, Alexander L ^a   White, Cassandra Q ^b   Funk, Geoffrey A ^a   Phelan, Herb A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest closure; Damage control; Thoracic trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CELLULITIS; CHEST INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON INJURY; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFINITIVE CHEST CLOSURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM INJURY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMPYEMA; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARREST; HEART INJURY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE INJURY; INTRATHORACIC PACKING; LIVER INJURY; LUNG INJURY; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS INJURY; PEAK INSPIRATORY FLOW; PEAK INSPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPORARY CHEST CLOSURE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; THORAX SURGERY; VEIN LIGATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACIC WALL; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 79952796429     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31820e89f1     Document Type: Article

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