Emergency department thoracotomies: Is it time we took them to the field?

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1070-1072

  Robertson, Andrew T ^a   Bulstrode, Chris J K ^b  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUNT TRAUMA; EMBASE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PENETRATING TRAUMA;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869785057     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31826f997b     Document Type: Review

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