Effect of Intoxication Among Blunt Trauma Patients Selected for Head Computed Tomography Scanning

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-51

  Bracken, Mark E ^a   Medzon, Ron ^a   Rathlev, Niels K ^a   Mower, William R ^b   Hoffman, Jerome R ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CALVARIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; HEAD; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845762304     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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