Loss of consciousness and/or amnesia after blunt head trauma in children [2]

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-94

  Kuppermann, Nathan ^a   Palchak, Michael J ^a   Holmes, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; IONIZING RADIATION; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK;

AMNESIA; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 21744435127     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000149314.14628.95     Document Type: Letter

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