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- Charles R. Drew/University of Medicine and Science, UCLA School of Medicine.
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AbstractThe best candidates for a community hospital emergency room thoracotomy are those victims who have decompensated following small-caliber gunshot wounds or stab wounds to the chest or abdomen who initially had signs of life in transport to the hospital or in the Emergency Department. Some of these patients can be successfully resuscitated by an emergency physician using the techniques described in this article.
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