Sonographic Scoring for Operating Room Triage in Trauma
Objective: The focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) exam is a routine diagnostic adjunct in the initial assessment of blunt trauma victims but lacks the ability to reliably predict which patients require laparotomy. Physiologic data play a major role in decision making regarding the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2010-05-01
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| Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rh9p14w |