Trends in 1029 trauma deaths at a level 1 trauma center: Impact of a bleeding control bundle of care

Injury

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 5-12

  Oyeniyi, Blessing T ^a   Fox, Erin E ^a   Scerbo, Michelle ^a   Tomasek, Jeffrey S ^a   Wade, Charles E ^a   Holcomb, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemorrhage; Mortality; Temporal distribution; Trauma death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URBAN AREA; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUE; INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEXAS; TIME FACTOR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRENDS;

HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HEMOSTATICS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 85006409386     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2016.10.037     Document Type: Article

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