Hospital outcomes and disposition of trauma patients who are intubated because of combativeness

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1305-1309

  Muakkassa, Farid F ^a   Marley, Robert A ^a   Workman, Meredith C ^a,b   Salvator, Ann E ^a  

^a AKRON GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combativeness; Intubation; Pneumonia; Psychiatric; Trauma

Indexed keywords

LORAZEPAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INTUBATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LORAZEPAM; MALE; OHIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PNEUMONIA; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953753796     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181dcd137     Document Type: Article

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