Ophthalmologists, suicide bombings and getting it right in the emergency department

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 199-203

  Barak, Adiel ^a   Verssano, David ^a   Halpern, Pinchas ^a   Lowenstein, Anat ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Intraocular foreign body; Ocular trauma; Terror; Vitrectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENUCLEATION; EYE INJURY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUICIDE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERRORISM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VICTIM; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXPLOSIONS; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERRORISM; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 38549086897     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0665-7     Document Type: Article

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