Emergency resuscitative thoracotomy performed in European civilian trauma patients with blunt or penetrating injuries: a systematic review

• Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
• Main Authors: Narvestad, Jon, Meskinfamfard, M., Søreide, Kjetil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2015
• Subjects: Emergency thoracotomy; Resuscitation; Survival; Blunt trauma; Penetrating trauma; Norway; Prisma; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/11722; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-015-0559-z

Purpose: Emergency resuscitative thoracotomy (ERT) is a lifesaving procedure in selected patients. Indications are still being debated, but outcome in blunt trauma is believed to be poor. Recent reports from European populations, where blunt trauma predominates, have suggested favorable outcome also...