Hand-held portable sonography for the on-mountain exclusion of a pneumothorax

Wilderness Environ Med. 2001 Winter;12(4):270-2. doi: 10.1580/1080-6032(2001)012[0270:hhpsft]2.0.co;2.

Authors

A W Kirkpatrick¹, D R Brown, S Crickmer, B P Mohr, D R Hamilton, J Cunningham, P D Walden, S Nicolaou

Affiliation

¹ Section of Trauma Services, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center, British Columbia, Canada. [email protected]

PMID: 11769924
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2001)012[0270:hhpsft]2.0.co;2

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Diagnosis, Differential
Emergency Treatment / instrumentation
Humans
Male
Mountaineering
Pneumothorax / diagnostic imaging*
Skiing
Thoracic Injuries / diagnostic imaging*
Ultrasonography / instrumentation
Wounds, Nonpenetrating / diagnostic imaging*