Serum ethanol levels: Predictor of survival after severe traumatic brain injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 697-703

  Salim, Ali ^a   Teixeira, Pedro ^b   Ley, Eric J ^a   Dubose, Joseph ^b   Inaba, Kenji ^b   Margulies, Daniel R ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Intoxication; Outcome; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BRAIN INJURIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ETHANOL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 72449150689     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181b5dcf2     Document Type: Article

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