Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and facial trauma: can one size fit all? Part 4: 'Can the patient see?' Timely diagnosis, dilemmas and pitfalls in the multiply injured, poorly responsive/unresponsive patient

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 505-514

  Perry, M ^a   Moutray, T ^b  

^a Regional and Maxillofacial Trauma Units   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atls; blindness; craniofacial; imaging; trauma; vep; vti

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; MANNITOL; STEROID;

AFFERENT PUPILLARY DEFECT; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXOPHTHALMOS; FACE INJURY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORBIT DISEASE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; RETROBULBAR HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; TONOMETRY;

CONFUSION; EYE INJURIES; FACIAL BONES; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SKULL; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 44249095811     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2007.11.004     Document Type: Review

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