Advanced trauma life support®. ABCDE from a radiological point of view

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 135-141

  Kool, Digna R ^a   Blickman, Johan G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Diagnostic imaging; Radiology; Spine; Thorax; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADVANCED TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; BREATHING; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISABILITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MYELOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS FRACTURE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE INJURY; TEACHING; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN; ACCIDENTS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOLOGY; SPINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34447100219     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-007-0633-x     Document Type: Review

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