Predicting the development of anemia by measuring the diameter of the inferior vena cava for children with blunt injuries

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 351-353

  Yanagawa, Youichi ^a   Sakamoto, Toshihisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anemia; Blunt injury; Child; CT; Inferior vena cava

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ANEMIA; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOKYO; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 66149174912     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e318177a776     Document Type: Article

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