Profile of chest trauma in a Level I trauma center

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 576-581

  Kulshrestha, Pankaj ^a   Munshi, Imtiaz ^a   Wait, Richard ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEWBORN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; SPLEEN INJURY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOSTOMY; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 4744348249     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000091107.00699.C7     Document Type: Article

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