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Chest wall thickness and depth to vital structures in paediatric patients – implications for prehospital needle decompression of tension pneumothorax

BACKGROUND: Recommendations regarding decompression of tension pneumothorax in small children are scarce and mainly transferred from the adult literature without existing evidence for the paediatric population. This CT-based study evaluates chest wall thickness, width of the intercostal space (ICS)...

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Autores principales: Terboven, Tom, Leonhard, Georg, Wessel, Lucas, Viergutz, Tim, Rudolph, Marcus, Schöler, Michael, Weis, Meike, Haubenreisser, Holger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6469218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30992028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-019-0623-5