Emergency Department Ultrasound Is not a Sensitive Detector of Solid Organ Injury

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the sensitivity and specificity of emergency department (ED) ultrasound for the detection of solid organ injury following blunt abdominal trauma. METHODS: A prospective cohort study performed in the ED of an urban Level I trauma center on patients who sustained blunt abdominal...

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Autores principales: Kendall, John L., Faragher, Jeffrey, Hewitt, Gwendolyn J., Burcham, Gregory, Haukoos, Jason S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2009
Materias:
Trauma
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561757

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