Risk factors and patterns of injury in snowmobile crashes

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 226-232

  Beilman, Gregory J ^a,d   Brasel, Karen J ^b,d   Dittrich, Karl ^c   Seatter, Susan ^a,d   Jacobs, Donald M ^c   Croston, J Kevin ^a  

^a NORTH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Regions Medical Center   (United States)

^c HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Extremity injury; Head injury; Pelvic fractures; Recreational injury; Snowmobile

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LIMB FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PREVENTION; RISK FACTOR; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPINE INJURY; THORAX INJURY; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033407383     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(1999)010[0226:RFAPOI]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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