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Recommendations Issued for Use of Thoracotomy in the Emergency Department

By Graham Ingalsbe, MD, and Stephen Wolf, MD, FACEP | on November 14, 2016 | 1 Comment
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Dr. Ingalsbe is chief resident at the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine in Colorado. Dr. Wolf is associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.

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Reference

  1. Seamon MJ, Haut ER, Van Arendonk K, et al. An evidence-based approach to patient selection for emergency department thoracotomy: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015;9(1):159-173.

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Topics: Critical CareEastern Association for the Surgery of TraumaEmergency DepartmentEmergency MedicineGuidelinePatient CareProcedures & SkillsRecommendationThoracotomy

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  1. April 12, 2018

    Nov 2017 Asynchronous Learning – Lakeland Health EM Blog Reply

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