Early intensive care unit intervention for trauma care: What alters the outcome?

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 587-592

  Sumann, Günther ^a,b   Kampfl, Andreas ^a   Wenzel, Volker ^a   Schobersberger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLUID THERAPY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDUCED HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGAN INJURY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PELVIS FRACTURE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; REVIEW; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MULTIPLE TRAUMA;

EID: 0036891720     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075198-200212000-00017     Document Type: Review

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