Timing of surgery after multisystem injury with traumatic brain injury: Effect on neuropsychological and functional outcome

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1250-1258

  Wang, Marjorie C ^a   Temkin, Nancy R ^b   Deyo, Richard A ^b   Jurkovich, Gregory J ^c   Barber, Jason ^b   Dikmen, Sureyya ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional outcome; Multisystem injury; Neuropsychological outcome; Timing of surgery; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONOTHERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248358673     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000215581.50234.56     Document Type: Article

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