Outcomes of patients with severe traumatic brain injury who have glasgow coma scale scores of 3 or 4 and are over 65 years old

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1549-1555

  Brazinova, Alexandra ^a,b   Mauritz, Walter ^c   Leitgeb, Johannes ^d   Wilbacher, Ingrid ^a,e   Majdan, Marek ^a,b   Janciak, Ivan ^a   Rusnak, Martin ^a,b  

^a International Neurotrauma Research Organization   (Austria)

^b TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c Unfallkrankenhaus Lorenz Bohler   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e Insurance Company Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Glasgow Coma Scale; Glasgow Outcome Scale; old age; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CISTERNA MAGNA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL SURGERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957299425     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1315     Document Type: Article

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