title: A forensic inquiry into compliance to guidelines for emergency resuscitative thoracotomy in trauma: If the dead can't talk and the living won't tell, it is a story half told.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Electronic address: ksoreide@mac.com.
authors.forename: Kjetil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Søreide
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality / Q000592:standards; D015996:Survival Rate; D013908:Thoracotomy / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality / Q000592:standards; D014218:Triage / Q000592:standards; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*