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A 6-year case series of resuscitative thoracotomies performed by a helicopter emergency medical service in a mixed urban and rural area with a comparison of blunt versus penetrating trauma

BACKGROUND: Resuscitative thoracotomy (RT) is an intervention that can be performed in the prehospital setting for relieving cardiac tamponade and/or obtaining vascular control of suspected sub-diaphragmatic haemorrhage in patients in traumatic cardiac arrest. The aim of this retrospective case stud...

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Autores principales: Almond, Phillip, Morton, Sarah, OMeara, Matthew, Durge, Neal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8793242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35081989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-022-00997-4