Severity and pattern of injury in survivors of Alpine fall accidents

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 349-354

  Hohlrieder, Matthias ^a,b,d   Eschertzhuber, Stephan ^a   Schubert, Heinrich ^a   Zinnecker, Richard ^b,c   Mair, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Austrian Mountain Rescue Service   (Austria)

^c Regional Hospital Feldkirch   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fracture; Helicopter; Mountaineering; Rescue; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; LIMB FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; SPINE FRACTURE; SURVIVAL; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

EID: 5644277895     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2004.5.349     Document Type: Article

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