The importance of fracture pattern in guiding therapeutic decision-making in patients with hemorrhagic shock and pelvic ring disruptions

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 446-450

  Eastridge, Brian J ^a   Starr, Adam ^a   Minei, Joseph P ^a   O'Keefe, Grant E ^a   Scalea, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Intra abdominal injury; Pelvis fracture; Shock

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0036740467     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200209000-00009     Document Type: Article

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