Pediatric surgery international
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Pediatr. Surg. Int. · Aug 2018
ReviewSurvival after emergency department thoracotomy in the pediatric trauma population: a review of published data.
The utility of EDT in the adult trauma population, using well-defined guidelines, is well established, especially for penetrating injuries. Since the introduction of these guidelines, reports on the use of EDT for pediatric trauma have been published, and these series reveal a dismal, almost universally fatal, outcome for EDT following blunt trauma in the child. This report reviews the clinical outcomes of EDT in the pediatric population. ⋯ Level IV.