The older patient with a spinal cord injury

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 20-30

  Lovasik, Darlene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Geriatric; Spinal cord injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENYTOIN;

AGED; AGING; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST OF ILLNESS; FALLING; FEVER; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE SURGERY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0032865608     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-199908000-00005     Document Type: Review

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