Unsuspected vascular trauma: Blunt arterial injuries

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 22, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 1081-1098

  Baker, William E ^a   Wassermann, Jonathan ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HEPARIN; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERY INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE INJURY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOGENESIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 5044232112     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2004.05.009     Document Type: Review

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