Management of head-injured patients in the emergency department: A practical protocol

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 213-219

  Arienta, Cesare ^a   Caroli, Manuela ^a   Balbi, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Emergency department; Head injury; Practical protocol

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030884020     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(97)00019-0     Document Type: Article

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