Management of severe head injury: Can we do better?

Lancet

Volumn 366, Issue 9496, 2005, Pages 1509-1510

  Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V ^a,b   Cooper, D James ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CRANIECTOMY; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MICRODIALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; NOTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27544463209     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67609-X     Document Type: Note

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