The frequency of unsuspected minor illness or injury in intoxicated patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 853-858

  Biros, Michelle H ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol intoxication; minor head trauma; minor trauma; occult illness

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD INJURY; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029781603     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03530.x     Document Type: Article

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