Pediatric emergency resuscitative thoracotomy: A Western Trauma Association, Pediatric Trauma Society, and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma collaborative critical decisions algorithm

Affiliation

• ¹ From the Deparment of Surgery (M.J.M., K.I.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Deparment of Surgery (M.J.M.), Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California; Deparment of Surgery (K.J.B.), Oregon Health Science University, Portland, Oregon; Deparment of Surgery (C.V.R.B.), Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; Deparment of Surgery (J.L.H.), University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas; Deparment of Surgery (M.d.M.), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Deparment of Surgery (E.J.L.), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Deparment of Surgery (E.E.M.), Ernest E Moore Shock Trauma Center, Denver, Colorado; Deparment of Surgery (K.A.P.), Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California; Deparment of Surgery (A.G.R.), Guthrie Health System, Sayre, Pennsylvania; Deparment of Surgery (N.G.R.), Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; Deparment of Surgery (J.A.W.), St. Joseph's Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; Deparment of Surgery (R.C.), Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Riverside, California; Deparment of Surgery (M.C.), University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida; Deparment of Surgery (K.M.), Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda; Deparment of Surgery (R.I.), University of California San Diego/Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California; Deparment of Surgery (S.L.), East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; Deparment of Surgery (K.T.F.-O'B.), Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Deparment of Surgery (G.N.), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas; and Deparment of Surgery (L.S., M.J.), Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon.