Waiting for the patient to "sober up": Effect of alcohol intoxication on glasgow coma scale score of brain injured patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1305-1311

  Sperry, Jason L ^a   Gentilello, Larry M ^a   Minei, Joseph P ^a   Diaz Arrastia, Ramon R ^a   Friese, Randall S ^a   Shafi, Shahid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Glasgow Coma Scale; Intoxication; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; BRAIN INJURIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845752905     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000240113.13552.96     Document Type: Article

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