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Prehospital Care for Patients with Head Injury and its Relevance to Post Traumatic Prognosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

G. Singbartl
G. Singbartl
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Knappschafts-Krankenhaus University Hospital, Ruhr University of Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany.
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Head injury has been demonstrated to be one of the most important lesions in polytrauma patients and of very decisive relevance to the posttraumatic prognosis. Moreover, other lesions and their sequelae (e.g. shock, thorax trauma) are known to worsen the primary cerebral injury by causing secondary brain damage due to hypotension and hypoxemia. This study considers the influence of prehospital emergency care to the posttraumatic prognosis in severe head injuries.

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 2: Contributions from the Fouth World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Brighton, England May, 1985 , 1987 , pp. 15 - 20
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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