Preventable morbidity at a mature trauma center

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 536-542

  Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Salim, Ali ^b   Rhee, Peter ^c   Brown, Carlos ^d   Browder, Timothy ^e   DuBose, Joseph ^a   Nomoto, Shirley ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENYTOIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BURN; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; EXTUBATION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMATOLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67449124370     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.82     Document Type: Article

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