Guidelines for initial management and assessment of spinal injury British Trauma Society, 2002

Injury

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 405-425

  Oakley, Peter ^a   Brohi, Karim ^a   Wilson, Alastair ^a   Bishay, Michael ^a   Brown, Mark ^a   Chan, Otto ^a   Cross, Frank ^a   Matthews, Stuart ^a   Richards, Paula ^a   Smith, Malcolm ^a   Templeton, John ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGITATION; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; EQUIPMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; INTUBATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE; SPINE INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

EID: 0037616077     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00354-6     Document Type: Review

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