A substantial proportion of life-threatening injuries are sport-related

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 624-627

  Meehan III, William P ^a,b   Mannix, Rebekah ^b  

^a Harvard Medical School   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Athletics; Catastrophic injury; Cervical spine fracture; Intracranial hematoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CHILD; COMMOTIO CORDIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUODENUM PERFORATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART CONTUSION; HEAT STROKE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; ICD-9; INFANT; LACERATION; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL FRACTURE; SPLEEN INJURY; SPORT INJURY; STOMACH RUPTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877769848     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31828e9cea     Document Type: Article

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