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More than just a urinary catheter — Haemorrhage control by using a Foley catheter in a penetrating aortic root injury

The prevalence of great vessel injuries in thoracic trauma is reported at 0.3–10%, predominantly due to a penetrating mechanism. Thoracic aortic injuries, more specifically those within proximity of the aortic root are challenging to manage and unceasing bleeding hampers adequate visualisation for p...

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Autores principales: Elmoghrabi, Adel, Mohamed, Mohamed, Eggers, Audra, Parmar, Narendrahsinh, McCann, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6013010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2016.09.006