Deaths from trauma in London - A single centre experience

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 305-309

  Chalkley, Dane ^a   Cheung, Grace ^a   Walsh, Michael ^a   Tai, Nigel ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DOG BITE; DROWNING; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; SEPSIS; SHOCK; STAB WOUND; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79953176691     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.085613     Document Type: Article

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