Surviving atlanto-occipital dislocation

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 379-382

  Bloom, Benjamin M ^a   Powell, Bruce P ^a  

^a FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atlanto occipital dislocation; Cervical hyperextension; Respiratory arrest; Spinal cord transection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL DISLOCATION; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INJURY; JOINT DISLOCATION; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; BICYCLING; DISLOCATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547102240     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2007.00993.x     Document Type: Article

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