A trauma series in the injured child: Do we really need it?

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 710-716

  Soundappan, Soundappan ^a   Smith, Neil F ^a   Lam, Lawrence T ^a   Holland, Andrew J A ^a   McCaskill, Mary ^a   Cass, Daniel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Ionising radiation; Management; Trauma; Trauma series

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PELVIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33750245731     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000236833.62065.85     Document Type: Article

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