Outcomes of patients admitted for hanging injuries with decreased consciousness but without cardiac arrest

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1666-1670

  Wee, Jung Hee ^a,b   Park, Jeong Ho ^a,b   Choi, Seung Pill ^a,b   Park, Kyu Nam ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HANGING; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; IRRITABILITY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; SEMICOMA; STRANGULATION; STUPOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VICTIM; ASPHYXIA; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPHYXIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STUPOR; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889671649     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2013.08.061     Document Type: Article

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