Time from accident to arrival at a Danish trauma centre: A study of patients with head injuries;Fra ulykke til traumecenter - Tidsforløb for patienter med alvorlig hovedskade

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 167, Issue 36, 2005, Pages 3397-3400

  Sunesen, Kåre Gotschalck ^b   Pallesen, Jan ^a,b   Koefoed Nielsen, Jacob ^b   Christensen, Erika Frischknecht ^b  

^a Anæstesiologisk intensiv Afdeling ^*  (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; DENMARK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TIME;

CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DENMARK; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT TRANSFER; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 24644468598     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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