Prehospital rapid-sequence intubation of patients with trauma with a Glasgow Coma Score of 13 or 14 and the subsequent incidence of intracranial pathology

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-141

  Ellis, Daniel Y ^a,b   Davies, Gareth E ^a   Pearn, John ^a   Lockey, David ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BRAIN DISEASES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATABASES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33846815404     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.040428     Document Type: Article

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