Correlation between crash severity, injury severity, and clinical course in car occupants with thoracic trauma: A technical and medical study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 10-16

  Richter, Martinus ^a   Krettek, Christian ^b   Otte, Dietmar ^a   Wiese, B ^a   Stalp, Michael ^a   Ernst, Stefan ^a   Pape, Hans Cristoph ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Medizinische Hochschule Hannover ^*

Author keywords

Clinical course; Prognostic factors; Technical analysis; Thoracic trauma; Traffic accident victim

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 0035408205     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200107000-00002     Document Type: Article

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