Injury patterns in polytraumatized children and consequences for the emergency room management

Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Cechoslovaca

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 365-370

  Zwingmann, J ^a   Schmal, H ^a   Mehlhorn, A ^a   Sudkamp N P ^a   Strohm, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abreviated injury Score; AIS; Emergency room management; Injury pattern; Injury Severity Score; ISS; Paediatric polytrauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; BRAIN CONTUSION; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LEG INJURY; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PEDIATRICS; PELVIS INJURY; PELVIS SURGERY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL SURGERY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; X RAY; ADULT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; LIMB INJURY; WHOLE BODY CT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA;

EID: 77958498260     PISSN: 00015415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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