Considerations for the head-injured air-evacuated patient: A case report of frontal sinus fracture and review of the literature

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 577-579

  Helling, Eric ^a   McKinlay, Alex J ^b  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECONGESTIVE AGENT; OXYMETAZOLINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE;

ADULT; BAROTRAUMA; BATTLE INJURY; CASE REPORT; FACE FRACTURE; FLIGHT; FRONTAL SINUS; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; VALSALVA MANEUVER; WOUND CLOSURE;

EID: 22244471110     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.7.577     Document Type: Review

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