Effect on survival of whole-body CT during trauma resuscitation

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9685, 2009, Pages 197-

  Giannoudis, Peter V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; INJURY; LETTER; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; WHOLE BODY CT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 67650385763     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61322-2     Document Type: Letter

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