Thoracic injuries in trauma patients: epidemiology and its influence on mortality [PDF]
Background Thoracic injuries are common among trauma patients. Studies on trauma patients with thoracic injuries have reported considerable differences in morbidity and mortality, and there is limited research on comparison between trauma patients with ...
Andrea Lundin +4 more
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Predictors of survival after emergency department thoracotomy in trauma patients with predominant thoracic injuries in Southern Israel: a retrospective survey [PDF]
Yael Refaely,1* Leonid Koyfman,2* Michael Friger,3 Leonid Ruderman,1 Mahmud Abu Saleh,1 Moti Klein,2 Evgeni Brotfain21Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; 2Department of ...
Refaely Y +6 more
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Animal model-based simulation training for three emergent and urgent operations of penetrating thoracic injuries [PDF]
Xin Zhong, Zhao-Wen Zong, Zhao Ye
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Thoracic Injury Rule out Criteria in Prediction of Traumatic Intra-thoracic Injuries; a Validation Study [PDF]
Introduction:Â Doing Chest X Ray (CXR) for all trauma patients is not efficient and cost effective due to its low diagnostic value. The present study was designed aiming to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of thoracic injury rule out criteria (TIRC) in ...
Setareh Asgarzadeh +3 more
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Functional outcomes of motor vehicle crash thoracic injuries in pediatric and adult occupants [PDF]
Samantha L Schoell +2 more
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Functional outcomes of thoracic injuries in pediatric and adult occupants [PDF]
Ashley A Weaver +2 more
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Background: the demographics, mechanisms of injury, and concurrent injuries associated with cervical, thoracic and lumbar spinal fracture and/or spinal cord injury remain poorly characterized.
Nidharshan S. Anandasivam +6 more
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BackgroundThoracic trauma is a major cause of death in trauma patients and road traffic accident (RTA)-related thoracic injuries have different characteristics than those with non-RTA related thoracic traumas, but this have been poorly described.
Axel Benhamed +8 more
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PATTERN AND OUTCOME OF ASSAULTED PENETRATING THORACIC AND ABDOMINAL TRAUMA CASES: A TWO YEARS PROSPECTIVE STUDY [PDF]
Background: There is a worldwide increase in the prevalence of assaulted penetrating thoracic and abdominal trauma which may lead to disabilities and death.
Shireen Slima, Mofrih Hegazy
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Forensic expertise of thoracic aorta, heart and pericardial injuries in car-occupant fatalities [PDF]
Introduction. Forensic expertise has not specified with certainty any specific injury among fatally injured frontal car-occupants in frontal car collisions. Objective. To establish if blunt injuries of thoracic aorta, heart, and pericardium could be used
Nikolić Slobodan
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