Emergency department treatment of chest injuries.

Abstract:

:Injury to the chest accounts directly or indirectly for up to 50 per cent of deaths secondary to trauma. Eighty-five per cent of patients with chest injury may be managed by minor procedures available to the emergency physician. The indications for surgery in the remaining 15 per cent of patients with chest injury must be understood.

authors

Mattox KL,Allen MK

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1984-11-01 00:00:00

pages

783-97

issue

4

eissn

0733-8627

issn

1558-0539

journal_volume

2

pub_type

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