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✍ Bruce Spears 📂 Article 📅 1990 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 108 KB

in each mechanism category. Survival was 9% for stab wounds, 4% for gunshot wounds, and 2% for blunt trauma. Of the blunt trauma patients, none survived when vital signs were absent. The authors advocate selective application of ED thoracotomy in children based on injury mechanism and physiologic st