Anterior versus lateral needle decompression of tension pneumothorax: Comparison by computed tomography chest wall measurement

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1022-1026

  Sanchez, Leon D ^a   Straszewski, Shannon ^a   Saghir, Amina ^a   Khan, Atif ^a   Horn, Erin ^a   Fischer, Christopher ^a   Khosa, Faisal ^a   Camacho, Marc A ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR NEEDLE DECOMPRESSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; LATERAL NEEDLE DECOMPRESSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN SURFACE; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; THORAX WALL;

ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACIC WALL; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 80054713168     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01159.x     Document Type: Review

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