Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 3 , Pages 354-361 , March 2004

Performance of abdominal ultrasonography in blunt trauma patients with out-of-hospital or emergency department hypotension

  • James F Holmes, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California–Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of California–Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: James F. Holmes, MD, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California–Davis Medical Center, 2315 Stockton Boulevard, PSSB, Sacramento, CA 95817-2282; 916-734-1539, fax 916-734-7950
    • ,
  • Dawn Harris, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California–Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of California–Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Felix D Battistella, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of California–Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA

Received 29 May 2003 ,Revised 10 September 2003 ,Accepted 12 September 2003.

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☆ Author contributions: JFH and DH conceived the study. JFH developed its design. JFH, DH, and FDB acquired the data; DH managed the data; and JFH analyzed and interpreted the data. JFH and FDB drafted the manuscript. All authors take responsibility for the paper as a whole.Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, Seattle, WA, October 2002.The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(03)00983-1

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.09.011

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 3 , Pages 354-361 , March 2004

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