Do routinely repeated computed tomography scans in traumatic brain injury influence management?: A prospective observational study in a level 1 trauma center

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1028-1031

  Connon, Francis F ^a   Namdarian, Benjamin ^a   Ee, Joanne L C ^a   Drummond, Katharine J ^b   Miller, Julie A ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 81855224648     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318219727f     Document Type: Review

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