Pattern and severity of injury in avalanche victims

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-61

  Hohlrieder, Matthias ^b,e   Brugger, Hermann ^a   Schubert, Heinrich M ^c   Pavlic, Marion ^c   Ellerton, John ^d   Mair, Peter ^b,e  

^a International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine   (Italy)

^b Austrian Mountain Rescue Service   (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asphyxia; Autopsy; Avalanche; Death; Injury; Mountain; Spinal injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; AVALANCHE; BRAIN INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; DISASTER; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE INJURY; THORAX INJURY; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION; VICTIM;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; AUSTRIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; NATURAL DISASTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SNOW; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34247151213     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2006.0815     Document Type: Article

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