What is the utility of the Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) exam in penetrating torso trauma?

Injury

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 482-487

  Quinn, Antonia C ^a   Sinert, Richard ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

Haemoperitoneum; Trauma; Ultrasound; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PERITONEUM LAVAGE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBASE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FOCUSED ASSESSMENT WITH SONOGRAPHY IN TRAUMA EXAM; GOLD STANDARD; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART INJURY; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TORSO TRAUMA; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIST; RADIOLOGIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESIDENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAB WOUND; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WOUND ASSESSMENT;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953672265     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.07.249     Document Type: Article

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