Pediatric head injury

Pediatrics in Review

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 215-224

  Atabaki, Shireen M ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ETOMIDATE; LIDOCAINE; MANNITOL; ROCURONIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUXAMETHONIUM; VASOPRESSIN; VECURONIUM;

BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DEATH; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FALLING; FLUID THERAPY; FOOTBALL; HEAD INJURY; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HORMONE RELEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LACERATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED STATES;

AMBULATORY CARE; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE ADH SYNDROME; LACERATIONS; SCALP; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIAGE;

EID: 34249930311     PISSN: 01919601     EISSN: 15263347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/pir.28-6-215     Document Type: Review

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