Efficacy of prehospital critical care teams for severe blunt head injury in the Australian setting

Injury

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 455-460

  Garner, Alan ^a   Crooks, Jenelle ^b   Lee, Anna ^a   Bishop, Rod ^a  

^a NRMA CareFlight   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW SOUTH WALES; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034905153     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(01)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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