Performance of pre-hospital evaluations in ruling out invasive chest stab wounds
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Management of asymptomatic patients following stab wounds to the chest.
A patient with stab wounds to the chest may have negative physical findings, and normal radiologic examinations and still develop delayed pneumothorax or hemothorax. The frequency and time intervals of these complications have not been established. One hundred ten asymptomatic patients with chest stab wounds were prospectively studied. All patients had normal chest radiographs on initial evalua...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1757-7241
DOI: 10.1186/s13049-020-00725-w