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Sonographic assessment of pediatric chest wall thickness and width of the intercostal space: correlation with anthropometric data and implications for needle decompression

BACKGROUND: Emergent needle decompression in children is a rare event for emergency medicine and critical care providers. Hereby, risk of injury of intrathoracic structures is high and knowledge of age-specific values of chest wall thickness and width of the intercostal space (ICS) is crucial to avo...

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Autores principales: Terboven, Tom, Betka, Ivette, Weiss, Christel, Rudolph, Marcus, Viergutz, Tim, Leonhard, Georg, Schöler, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8110626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33970385
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13089-021-00226-6