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Pre-hospital intercostal chest drains in South Africa: A modified Delphi study

INTRODUCTION: Trauma is one of the most common causes of death in low- and middle-income countries, with thoracic injury accounting for 20–25% of these deaths worldwide. The current management of a life-threatening pre-hospital pneumothorax is with a needle chest decompression, however, definitive c...

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Autores principales: Dippenaar, Enrico, Wallis, Lee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6543074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31193823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2019.01.003