What mechanism justifies abdominal evaluation in motor vehicle crashes?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1057-1061

  Brasel, Karen J ^a   Nirula, Ram ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal injury; Elderly; Mechanism; Motor vehicle crash; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DRIVER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; MALE; MODEL; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VELOCITY;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 30344462385     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000187798.37920.4c     Document Type: Article

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