Severe traumatic brain injury in Austria III: Prehospital status and treatment

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 35-45

  Lenartova, Lucia ^a   Janciak, Ivan ^a   Wilbacher, Ingrid ^a   Rusnak, Martin ^a   Mauritz, Walter ^b,c  

^a INRO International Neurotrauma Research Organisation   (Austria)

^b Unfallkrankenhaus Lorenz Bohler   (Austria)

^c INRO   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Fluid administration; Glasgow Coma Scale; Outcome; Prehospital; Transport; Traumatic; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; AUSTRIA; BREATHING RATE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL; PUPIL REFLEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 34250851314     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00508-006-0762-3     Document Type: Article

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