Emergency management of pelvic fractures

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 79-86

  Day, Adrian C ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTERY SPASM; BLADDER INJURY; BLEEDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; LAPAROTOMY; OPEN FRACTURE; PELVIS FRACTURE; SEPSIS; SKELETON TRACTION; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; URETHRA INJURY; URINARY TRACT INJURY; EMERGENCY; FRACTURE; INJURY; MALE; PELVIC GIRDLE; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

EMERGENCIES; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, OPEN; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIC BONES; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 0037313412     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.2003.64.2.1827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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