Procoagulant activity in patients with isolated severe head trauma

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 149-156

  Scherer, Ralf U ^a   Spangenberg, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antithrombin III; Brain; Coagulation; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Fibrinolysis; Head; Hypercoagulability; Injury; Thrombin; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; FIBRINOGEN; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD COAGULATION FACTORS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; FIBRIN; FIBRINOLYSIS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031975632     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199801000-00031     Document Type: Article

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