Respiratory complications and mortality risk associated with thoracic spine injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1400-1409

  Cotton, Bryan A ^a,b,c   Pryor, John P ^a   Chinwalla, Imtiaz ^a   Wiebe, Douglas J ^a   Reilly, Patrick M ^a   Schwab, C William ^a   Brundage, Susan ^c   Duane, Therese M ^c   Yelon, Jay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Complication; Pulmonary; Respiratory; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPINE INJURY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TRACHEOSTOMY; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; INJURY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 33646168461     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000196005.49422.e6     Document Type: Article

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