Clearance of the cervical spine in clinically unevaluable trauma patients

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1721-1728

  Halpern, Casey H ^a   Milby, Andrew H ^b   Guo, Wensheng ^b   Schuster, James M ^a   Gracias, Vicente H ^c   Stein, Sherman C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

back pain; cost of illness; primary care; severity of low back, depression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INJURY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

BRACES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPINAL INJURIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77955972755     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181e9acb2     Document Type: Article

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