Injury
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 34-42 , January 2007

Resuscitative emergency thoracotomy in a Scandinavian trauma hospital—Is it justified?

  • K. Søreide

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway
    • Department of Pathology, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway
    • Acute Care Medicine Research Group, Department of Health Studies, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Pathology, Stavanger University Hospital, POB 8100, N-4068 Stavanger, Norway.
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  • H. Søiland

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway
    • ,
  • H.M. Lossius

      Affiliations

    • Division of Acute Care Medicine, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
    • Acute Care Medicine Research Group, Department of Health Studies, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
    • Norwegian Air Ambulance, Drøbak, Norway
    • ,
  • M. Vetrhus

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway
    • ,
  • J.A. Søreide

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway
    • Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
    • ,
  • E. Søreide

      Affiliations

    • Division of Acute Care Medicine, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
    • Acute Care Medicine Research Group, Department of Health Studies, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
    • Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

,Accepted 12 June 2006.

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PII: S0020-1383(06)00526-2

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.06.125

Injury
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 34-42 , January 2007

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