Effect on survival of whole-body CT during trauma resuscitation

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9685, 2009, Pages 197-198

  Strohm, Peter C ^a   Hauschild, Oliver ^a   Südkamp, Norbert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; INJURY; LETTER; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; WHOLE BODY CT; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INJURY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; TIME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650388608     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61323-4     Document Type: Letter

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