Relatively short diagnostic delays (<8 hours) produce morbidity and mortality in blunt small bowel injury: An analysis of time to operative intervention in 198 patients from a multicenter experience

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 408-415

  Fakhry, Samir M ^a,d   Brownstein, Michelle ^b   Watts, Dorraine D ^a   Baker, Christopher C ^b   Oller, Dale ^c  

^a INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAKEMED HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^d INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributable mortality; Delay in diagnosis; Diagnosis; Hollow viscus injury; Small bowel injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0034028066     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200003000-00007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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