The diagnosis and management of acute traumatic diaphragmatic injury: A Western Trauma Association clinical decisions

Morgan Schellenberg1, Raul Coimbra, Chasen A Croft

  • 1From the Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (M.S., M.J.M.), Los Angeles General Medical Center, Los Angeles; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (R.C.), Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (C.A.C.), University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (C.F.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (J.H.), University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (N.K.), University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (M.L.), Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy (G.A.M.), Keck Medical Center of USC, Los Angeles, California; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (L.J.M.), The University of Texas McGovern Medical School-Houston Red Duke Trauma Institute, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (A.R.P.), Medical University of South Carolina, North Charleston, South Carolina; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (K.M.S.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (R.T.), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (J.A.W.), St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; and Program in Trauma (D.M.S.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

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