Early predictors of sepsis in the motor-vehicle crash trauma victim

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-36

  Previdi, Jeanette K ^a   Cayten, C Gene ^a   Byrne, Daniel W ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

infection; injury types; morbidity; mortality; motor vehicle crashes; sepsis; shock; transfusions; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES; WOUND INFECTION;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0029689816     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0004231X     Document Type: Article

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