Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and facial trauma: can one size fit all?. Part 2: ATLS, maxillofacial injuries and airway management dilemmas

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-320

  Perry, M ^a   Morris, C ^b  

^a Regional and Maxillofacial Trauma Units   (United Kingdom)

^b DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway; Assessment; ATLS; Craniofacial; Emergency; Priorities; Spine; Transfer; Trauma; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGITATION; AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANALGESIA; BLEEDING; BRAIN INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FACE INJURY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTUBATION; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CLEARANCE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VOMITING;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES; SPINAL INJURIES; VOMITING;

EID: 41249090983     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2007.11.002     Document Type: Review

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