Isolated transient loss of consciousness is an indicator of significant injury

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 941-946

  Owings, John T ^a   Wisner, David H ^a   Battistella, Felix D ^a   Perlstein, Jon ^b   Walby, William F ^a   Tharratt, R Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DAVID GRANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTORCYCLE; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0031657354     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.133.9.941     Document Type: Article

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