Efficacy of pre-hospital interventions for the management of severe blunt head injury

Injury

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 329-337

  Garner, Alan A ^a   Schoettker, Patrick ^b  

^a NSW Medical Retrieval Service   (Australia)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; MANNITOL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AIRWAY; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; FLUID THERAPY; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; INTUBATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL;

EID: 0036095225     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00011-6     Document Type: Article

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