Effect of diagnosis and treatment of sinusitis in critically ill burn victims

Burns

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-81

  McCormick, J T ^a   O'Mara, M S ^a   Wakefield, W ^a   Goldfarb, I W ^a   Slater, H ^a,b   Caushaj, P F ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 338 Mellon Pavilion ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Burn victims; Diagnosis; Sinusitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY SURFACE; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG BURN; MEDICAL RECORD; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; SINUSITIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037305444     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(02)00233-4     Document Type: Article

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