Multiple trauma in the elderly: New management perspectives

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Soles, Gillian L S ^a   Tornetta, Paul ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

elderly; geriatric; Multiple trauma; polytrauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ASSAULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEART INFARCTION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEPSIS; STAB WOUND; SURVIVAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATOLOGY; COMORBIDITY; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; INJURY SEVERITY; OPERATION DURATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 79957793177     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e31821b8a3b     Document Type: Conference Paper

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