Geriatric Trauma Patients: What is the Difference?

Current Surgery Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Joseph, Bellal ^a   Hassan, Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Elderly injury; Frailty; GCS; Geriatric trauma; Mortality; Physiological changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001620246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21674817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/S40137-015-0123-0     Document Type: Article

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