Complications of emergency center thoracotomy

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 876-877

  Suliburk, James W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency service; Hospital; Resuscitation methods; Thoracotomy mortality

Indexed keywords

AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARREST; HEART INJURY; HEART MASSAGE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERICARDIOTOMY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESUSCITATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; RESUSCITATION/METHODS; THORACOTOMY/MORTALITY;

EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THORACOTOMY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84874047011     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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