Conventional terrorism and critical care

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Singer, Pierre ^a,b   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,b   Stein, Michael ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blast exposure; Conventional weapons terror; Pulmonary blast injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; EARDRUM PERFORATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LUNG INJURY; OXYGENATION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TERRORISM;

CRITICAL CARE; EXPLOSIONS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LENGTH OF STAY; TERRORISM; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 12244274981     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000151068.33935.3E     Document Type: Review

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