Do we really need 24-h observation for patients with minimal brain injury and small intracranial bleeding? The Bernese trauma unit protocol

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 537-539

  Schaller, Benoit ^a   Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios Stergios ^a   Müller, Christian ^a   Martinolli, Luca ^a   Pouljadoff, Marie Pierre ^a   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a   Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMAL BRAIN INJURY; OBSERVATION UNIT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; OBSERVATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77954167614     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.073031     Document Type: Article

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