Is trauma in Switzerland any different? Epidemiology and patterns of injury in major trauma - A 5-year review from a Swiss trauma centre

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Heim, Catherine ^a   Bosisio, Francesca ^a   Roth, Audrey ^a   Bloch, Jocelyne ^a   Borens, Olivier ^a   Daniel, Roy T ^a   Denys, Alban ^a   Oddo, Mauro ^a   Pasquier, Mathieu ^a   Schmidt, Sabine ^a   Schoettker, Patrick ^a   Zingg, Tobias ^a   Wasserfallen, Jean Blaise ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Injury; Mortality; Outcome; Registry; Trauma; Trauma centre; Trauma system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; AUTOMUTILATION; BLUNT TRAUMA; BONE INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGEON; ORTHOPEDICS; PELVIC GIRDLE INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; SPINE INJURY; SURGEON; SWITZERLAND; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; AGED; ARM; BURN; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC GIRDLE; REGISTER; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; BURNS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC BONES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SPINAL INJURIES; SWITZERLAND; THORACIC INJURIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; UPPER EXTREMITY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899708693     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: 14243997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2014.13958     Document Type: Article

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