Does hemopericardium after chest trauma mandate sternotomy?

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1518-1525

  Thorson, Chad M ^a   Namias, Nicholas ^a   Van Haren, Robert M ^a   Guarch, Gerardo A ^a   Ginzburg, Enrique ^a   Salerno, Tomas A ^a   Schulman, Carl I ^a   Livingstone, Alan S ^b   Proctor, Kenneth G ^a  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac injury; Pericardial window; Sonography

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INJURY; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY; LIVER INJURY; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SEPSIS; STAB WOUND; STERNOTOMY; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX INJURY; VITAL SIGN;

COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART INJURIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIAL WINDOW TECHNIQUES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 84864245603     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318254306e     Document Type: Article

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