Prehospital and Early Clinical Care of Infants, Children, and Teenagers Compared to an Adult Cohort: Analysis of 2,961 Children in Comparison to 21,435 Adult Patients from the Trauma Registry of DGU in a 15-Year Period

European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 300-307

  Wyen, Hendrik ^a   Jakob, Heike ^a   Wutzler, Sebastian ^a   Lefering, Rolf ^b   Laurer, Helmut L ^a   Marzi, Ingo ^a   Lehnert, Mark ^a   The Trauma Registry of DGU, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multiple trauma; Pediatric; Pediatric trauma; Polytrauma management including prehospital and shockroom; Prehospital care

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956171734     PISSN: 18639933     EISSN: 16153146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00068-010-1124-4     Document Type: Article

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