PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ball, Chad G.
TI  - Current management of penetrating torso trauma: nontherapeutic is not good enough anymore
AID  - 10.1503/cjs.026012
DP  - 2014 Apr 01
TA  - Canadian Journal of Surgery
PG  - E36--E43
VI  - 57
IP  - 2
4099  - http://canjsurg.ca/content/57/2/E36.short
4100  - http://canjsurg.ca/content/57/2/E36.full
SO  - CAN J SURG2014 Apr 01; 57
AB  - A highly organized approach to the evaluation and treatment of penetrating torso injuries based on regional anatomy provides rapid diagnostic and therapeutic consistency. It also minimizes delays in diagnosis, missed injuries and nontherapeutic laparotomies. This review discusses an optimal sequence of structured rapid assessments that allow the clinician to rapidly proceed to gold standard therapies with a minimal risk of associated morbidity.