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Sharp and Blunt Values

Science & Education, 2003
The paper contributes to the discussion concerning philosophical, physical, mathematical, and linguistic aspects of the concepts of sharp and blunt values. It can be hardly summarized to a review size.
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Blunt Ocular Trauma

Seminars in Ophthalmology, 1988
The emergency medicine physician is encouraged to perform a brief eye history and examination on patients presenting with not only ocular but also multisystem trauma. Obviously, life-threatening conditions take precedence, but it is important to give attention to the ocular area once the patient is stabilized.
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Blunt Cardiac Trauma

The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2008
The incidence of cardiac injury after blunt chest trauma is difficult to determine and ranges from 8% to 76%. Moreover, the clinical presentation varies tremendously without a real gold standard to exclude or document cardiac involvement. Electrocardiogram as a single test is not sensitive or specific for diagnosing cardiac contusion.
Mikhael F. El-Chami   +2 more
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Blunt Gastric Injuries

The American Surgeon™, 2007
Gastric rupture after blunt abdominal trauma is a rare injury with few reports in the literature. The purpose of this study was to review our experience with blunt gastric injuries and compare outcomes with small bowel or colon injuries. All patients with hollow viscus perforations after blunt abdominal trauma from 1992 to 2005 at our level I trauma ...
Ali Salim   +4 more
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Blunt cardiac trauma

The American Journal of Surgery, 1984
The diagnosis of blunt cardiac injury is often difficult to make because of the multiple associated injuries, the lack of specific physical findings, and the lack of sensitivity and specificity of the electrocardiograms and enzyme changes. The two-dimensional echocardiogram and the monitoring of filling pressures and cardiac indexes by pulmonary artery
William Mayfield, Edward J. Hurley
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Blunt Neck Injury

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1993
Emergency physicians must diagnose or exclude cervical spine trauma in daily practice. This is a complicated task, as the presentation may be subtle and the manifestations obscured, and no imaging modality is completely sensitive or specific. The research of the past two decades serves as a guide as to which types of patients require cervical ...
John A. Marx   +2 more
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Blunt Trauma to the Abdomen

Archives of Surgery, 1960
Nonpenetrating injuries to the abdomen represent a challenging problem in our nation's hospitals today. There seems little likelihood—in a growing society in which nearly 40,000 persons annually are killed in automobile accidents, and 3,500,000 injured—that we can look with any optimism toward the prevention of these injuries. It is hoped that a review
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Blunt Laryngotracheal Trauma

Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 1978
Management of blunt trauma to the larynx and trachea is based upon accurate assessment of the anatomic site of the injury, the tissue involved, the time since the injury, and the general status of the patient. Early and orderly diagnosis and classification result in early management, which is essential to maximize function and minimize morbidity.To ...
Donald G. Sessions   +2 more
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Blunt Trauma Injuries [PDF]

open access: possibleClinics in Sports Medicine, 2013
The evaluation and management of sports-related blunt trauma injuries is an important area that interfaces the sports medicine world with many other subspecialty areas of medicine. The goal of this special focus issue is to help keep physicians that care for athletes up to date regarding the latest developments pertaining to new technology to hasten ...
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The Blunt Instrument

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1997
Punishment is an ugly, brutal thing. By definition, punishment involves the deliberate infliction of pain and suffering on another. It is the intentional creation of harm. Though we ordinarily think of punishment as a response to crime, we should be ever mindful of the fact that—by any known society's definition--punishment is crime, unless it is fully
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