Pediatric wartime admissions to US military combat support hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq: Learning from the first 2,000 admissions

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 762-768

  Creamer, Kevin M ^a,b   Edwards, Mary J ^c,d   Shields, Cynthia H ^c   Thompson, Mark W ^b,d   Yu, Clifton E ^a,b   Adelman, William ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^d TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat support hospitals; Head injury; Military; Mortality; Pediatric Wartime trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLAST INJURY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; FACE INJURY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INJURY; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; IRAQ; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; NEWBORN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TORSO INJURY;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LENGTH OF STAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 72449182264     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31818b1e15     Document Type: Article

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