Life-threatening bleeding of bilateral maxillary arteries in maxillofacial trauma: Report of two cases

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 933-937

  Chen, Chien Chung ^a   Jeng, Seng Feng ^a   Tsai, Hui Hong ^a   LiLiang, Po Chou ^b   Hsieh, Ching Hua ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DOPAMINE; ENBUCRILATE;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON CATHETER; BLEEDING; BLINDNESS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DROWSINESS; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPISTAXIS; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FACE DEFORMITY; FACE FRACTURE; FALLING; FEMUR FRACTURE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; MALE; MAXILLARY ARTERY; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; NOSE; NOSE CAVITY; OPEN REDUCTION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRACHEOSTOMY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; EPISTAXIS; FACIAL INJURIES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; MAXILLARY ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SKULL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349062005     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000224900.56794.e5     Document Type: Article

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