High mortality after emergency room laparotomy in haemodynamically unstable trauma patients

Danish Medical Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Lund, Helle ^a   Kofoed, Steen Christian ^a   Hillingsø, Jens Georg ^a   Falck Larsen, Claus ^a   Svendsen, Lars Bo ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL INJURY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLUNT TRAUMA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SHOCK; STATISTICS; SYSTOLE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SHOCK; SYSTOLE; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955951214     PISSN: 16039629     EISSN: 16039629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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