Physical examination combined with focused assessment with sonography for trauma examination to clear hemodynamically stable blunt abdominal trauma patients

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1527-1528

  Byars, Donald ^a   Devine, Alicia ^a   Maples, Christopher ^a   Yeats, Alexander ^a   Greene, Krista ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885291126     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.06.042     Document Type: Letter

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