A contemporary rural trauma center experience in blunt traumatic aortic injury

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 884-890

  Durham, Christopher A ^a   McNally, Michael M ^a   Parker, Frank M ^a   Bogey, William M ^a   Powell, Charles S ^a   Goettler, Claudia E ^a   Rotondo, Michael F ^a   Stoner, Michael C ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCORE; ADULT; AORTA INJURY; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; THORACIC ENDOVASCULAR AORTIC REPAIR; AORTA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

ADULT; AORTA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77957550159     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.04.068     Document Type: Article

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