Survival of trauma patients with coma and bilateral fixed dilated pupils

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-32

  Chaudhuri, Krishanu ^a   Malham, Gregory M ^a,b   Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glasgow Coma Score; Outcome; Pre hospital; Pupillary status; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249136790     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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