Incidence and outcome of tube thoracostomy positioning in Trauma patients

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 237-241

  Maybauer, Marc O ^a,b,c   Geisser, Wolfgang ^a,d   Wolff, Holger ^a,e   Maybauer, Dirk M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^d Department of Anaesthesiology   (Germany)

^e Ludwigsburg Clinic   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway management; Chest tube; Endotracheal intubation; Helicopter emergency medical system; Needle decompression; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; CHEST TUBES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857862517     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2011.615975     Document Type: Article

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