Factors influencing the injury pattern and injury severity after high speed motor vehicle accident-A retrospective study

Resuscitation

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-41

  Weninger, Patrick ^a   Hertz, Harald ^a  

^a Unfallkrankenhaus Lorenz Bohler   (Austria)

Author keywords

Injury pattern; Motor vehicle accident; Multiple injury; Prehospital triage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LIVER RUPTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SEATBELT; SPLEEN RUPTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34548294814     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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