Advanced Paramedic Delivered Finger Thoracostomy
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Prehospital thoracostomy.
We read with interest the article on prehospital thoracostomy published in the journal [1] and the correspondence that followed recently [2,3]. We work on the unit where the intervention was originally described [4]. In the last 10 years 1079 thoracostomies have been performed on prehospital patients in our system. This amounts to 9% of trauma patients attended in the same period. We are aware ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Irish Journal of Paramedicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2009-938X
DOI: 10.32378/ijp.v3i2.129