The relationship between post-traumatic ventilator-associated pneumonia outcomes and American College of Surgeons trauma centre designation

Injury

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-43

  Dubose, Joseph J ^a   Putty, Bradley ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Recinos, Gustavo ^a   Shiflett, Anthony ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Green, D J ^a   Plurad, David ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Mechanical ventilation; Mortality; Outcomes; Trauma; Trauma level verification; Trauma volume; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BURN; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOSTOMY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78549282546     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.08.026     Document Type: Article

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