Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and facial trauma: can one size fit all?. Part 1: Dilemmas in the management of the multiply injured patient with coexisting facial injuries

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-214

  Perry, M ^a  

^a Regional and Maxillofacial Trauma Units   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATLS; craniofacial trauma; priorities; triage

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADVANCED TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT; AIRWAY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EYE INJURY; FACE INJURY; FALLING; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTUBATION; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MEDIASTINUM; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROPERITONEUM; REVIEW; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL; THERAPY DELAY; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; TRIAGE;

EID: 40249097559     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2007.11.003     Document Type: Review

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