Use of a trauma service clinical pathway to improve patient outcomes for retained traumatic hemothorax.

TY - JOUR

T1 - Use of a trauma service clinical pathway to improve patient outcomes for retained traumatic hemothorax.

AU - Morrison, C. Anne

AU - Lee, Timothy C.

AU - Wall, Matthew J.

AU - Carrick, Matthew M.

N1 - Introduction Early evacuation of retained hemothorax (RHTX) has been shown to improve clinical outcomes. In 2006, our trauma surgery service instituted a clinical pathway for management of RHTX that was designed to decrease time to operation and improve patient outcomes. We report our experience with early evacuation of posttraumatic RHTX after instituting a service-wide clinical pathway.

PY - 2009/7/21

Y1 - 2009/7/21

UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00268-009-0141-0

U2 - 10.1007/S00268-009-0141-0

DO - 10.1007/S00268-009-0141-0

M3 - Article

VL - 33

JO - World Journal of Surgery

JF - World Journal of Surgery

IS - 9

ER -