Routine or protocol evaluation of trauma patients with suspected syncope is unnecessary

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 428-432

  Maung, Adrian A ^a   Kaplan, Lewis J ^a   Schuster, Kevin M ^a   Johnson, Dirk C ^a   Davis, Kimberly A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fall; Motor vehicle collision; Syncope; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ENZYME;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNCOPE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNCOPE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79951620230     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31820958be     Document Type: Article

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