Predictors of poor outcomes after significant chest trauma in multiply injured patients: A retrospective analysis from the German Trauma Registry (Trauma Register DGU®)

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Huber, Stephan ^a   Biberthaler, Peter ^a   Delhey, Patrick ^a   Trentzsch, Heiko ^d   Winter, Hauke ^c   van Griensven, Martijn ^a   Lefering, Rolf ^b   Huber Wagner, Stefan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e Committee on Emergency Medicine Intensive Care and Trauma Management ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Blunt chest trauma; Chest wall injury; ISS; Mortality; Outcome; Polytrauma; Severly injured; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC INJURIES; TRENDS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC INJURIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908147270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13049-014-0052-4     Document Type: Article

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