Abstract

LOMBARDO VAILLANT, Tomás Ariel. Management of the six great of the thorax trauma: Second part. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2008, vol.37, n.1. ISSN 0138-6557.

The life threatening thoracic lesions are produced by the damage to the vital structures being inside them. Aimed at exposing the diagnosis and the therapeutical measures in entities such as the airways obstruction, cardiac tamponade and unstable thorax, supported by the best evidences found in literature through a search conducted from June 2005 to October 2006 with the health information localizer in the EBSCO, LILACS, Cochrane Library and Medline on-line databases (the latter was possible by using the EndNote 7 database personal manager), as well in specialized journals, consultation books, and with Google search engine, the papers that permitted to make recommendations supported by the level of evidence classified by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality were evaluated.

Keywords : Thoracic traumatism; evidence-based medicine.

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