Cranial impalement in a child driving an all-terrain vehicle

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 409-410

  Long, Gina ^a   Thompson, Tonya M ^b   Storm, Beth ^b   Graham, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

all terrain vehicle; foreign body; injury

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FENTANYL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; ONDANSETRON;

ALERTNESS; ALL TERRAIN VEHICLE INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIUM IMPALEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIBER OPTICS; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OXYGEN MASK; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WAKEFULNESS;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OFF-ROAD MOTOR VEHICLES; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 79955820302     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31821d86ea     Document Type: Article

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