Effect on survival of whole-body CT during trauma resuscitation - Authors' reply

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9685, 2009, Pages 198-199

  Huber Wagner, S ^a   Lefering, R ^b   Mutschler, W ^a   Kanz, KG ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUNT TRAUMA; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; WHOLE BODY CT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 67650385755     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61325-8     Document Type: Letter

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