Influence of alcohol on early glasgow coma scale in head-injured patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1176-1181

  Shahin, Hazem ^a   Gopinath, Shankar P ^a   Robertson, Claudia S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Glasgow Coma Scale; Intoxication; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78549244413     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181edbd47     Document Type: Article

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