Pre-hospital intubation factors and pneumonia in trauma patients

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 339-344

  Evans, Heather L ^a   Warner, Keir ^a   Bulger, Eileen M ^a   Sharar, Sam R ^a   Maier, Ronald V ^a   Cuschieri, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLUNT TRAUMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THORAX INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RISK FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80155165613     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.074     Document Type: Article

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