A comprehensive investigation of comorbidities, mechanisms, injury patterns, and outcomes in geriatric blunt trauma patients

American Surgeon

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1055-1062

  Brown, Carlos V R ^a   Rix, Kevin ^b   Klein, Amanda L ^a,b   Ford, Brent ^b   Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a,b   Aydelotte, Jayson ^a,b   Coopwood, Ben ^a,b   Ali, Sadia ^b  

^a University Medical Center Brackenridge   (United States)

^b Center at Brackenridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT DURATION; VERY ELDERLY; VITAL SIGN; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEG INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MOTORCYCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LEG INJURIES; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTORCYCLES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; VITAL SIGNS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 85015581870     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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