Patients who talk and deteriorate: A new look at an old problem

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 489-493

  Tan, Je ^a   Ng, Ivan ^a   Lim, J ^a   Wong, H B ^b   Yeo, T T ^a  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Coagulopathy; Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MASS LESION; BRAIN TUMOR; COMA; CONVALESCENCE; DATA BASE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; GENDER; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 4644235694     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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