Severely injured geriatric population: Morbidity, mortality, and risk factors

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1908-1914

  Labib, Noura ^a   Nouh, Thamer ^b   Winocour, Sebastian ^b   Deckelbaum, Dan ^b   Banici, Laura ^b   Fata, Paola ^b   Razek, Tarek ^b   Khwaja, Kosar ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complication; Elderly; Fall; GCS; Geriatric; Intensive care; ISS; Morbidity; Mortality; MVC; Outcomes; Trauma; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; BLADDER RUPTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EAR NOSE THROAT DISEASE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FACE FRACTURE; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FIBULA FRACTURE; FLAIL CHEST; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOTHORAX; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTUBATION; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER INJURY; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PELVIS FRACTURE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPLEEN INJURY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIBIA FRACTURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84355166777     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31820989ed     Document Type: Review

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