Head injury and outcome-what influence do concomitant injuries have?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1036-1043

  Lefering, Rolf ^a,c   Paffrath, Thomas ^a   Linker, Ralph ^b   Bouillon, Bertil ^a   Neugebauer, Edmund A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Orthopedic Medical Practice Center   (Germany)

^c Campus Cologne Merheim ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Head injury; Mortality; Outcome; Score systems; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; INTUBATION; LEG INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SKULL INJURY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REGISTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650641565     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318184ee48     Document Type: Article

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