Geriatric Trauma

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 837-860

  Callaway, David W ^a   Wolfe, Richard ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BICARBONATE; CLOPIDOGREL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DESMOPRESSIN; ENOXAPARIN; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; OPIATE; PROTHROMBIN COMPLEX; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; ROCURONIUM; SEDATIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUXAMETHONIUM; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

AGED; AIRWAY; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA INJURY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREATHING; CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; CRYOPRECIPITATE; CRYSTALLOID; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISABILITY; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXPOSURE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROSURGERY; ORGAN INJURY; PAIN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; STROKE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATOLOGY; TRUNK; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EID: 34548439762     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2007.06.005     Document Type: Review

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