Major trauma CT scanning: The experience of a regional trauma centre in the UK

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 378-382

  Smith, Christopher M ^a   Woolrich Burt, Louise ^a   Wellings, Richard ^a   Costa, Matthew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 79955018136     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.076414     Document Type: Article

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