Relation of body position at the time of discovery with suspected aspiration pneumonia in poisoned comatose patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 745-748

  Adnet, Frédéric ^a,c   Borron, Stephen W ^a   Finot, Marie Agnès ^a   Minadeo, John ^b   Baud, Frédéric J ^a  

^a HÔPITAL FERNAND WIDAL   (France)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AVICENNE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Aspiration pneumonia; Body position; Poisoning; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BODY POSTURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECUMBENCY; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; POISONING; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032920575     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199904000-00028     Document Type: Article

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