Resuscitation
Volume 75, Issue 2 , Pages 276-285 , November 2007

Outcome in 757 severely injured patients with traumatic cardiorespiratory arrest

  • Stefan Huber-Wagner

      Affiliations

    • Klinikum der Universität München, Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Campus Innenstadt, Nussbaumstrasse 20, D-80336 München, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 89 5160 2511; fax: +49 89 5160 4934.
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  • Rolf Lefering

      Affiliations

    • IFOM-Institut für Forschung in der Operativen Medizin, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Fakultät für Medizin, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, D-51109 Köln, Germany
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  • Mike Qvick

      Affiliations

    • Klinikum der Universität München, Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Campus Innenstadt, Nussbaumstrasse 20, D-80336 München, Germany
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  • Michael V. Kay

      Affiliations

    • Klinikum der Universität München, Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Campus Innenstadt, Nussbaumstrasse 20, D-80336 München, Germany
    • ,
  • Thomas Paffrath

      Affiliations

    • IFOM-Institut für Forschung in der Operativen Medizin, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Fakultät für Medizin, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, D-51109 Köln, Germany
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  • Wolf Mutschler

      Affiliations

    • Klinikum der Universität München, Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Campus Innenstadt, Nussbaumstrasse 20, D-80336 München, Germany
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  • Karl-Georg Kanz

      Affiliations

    • Klinikum der Universität München, Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Campus Innenstadt, Nussbaumstrasse 20, D-80336 München, Germany
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  • Working Group on Polytrauma of the German Trauma Society (DGU)

Received 24 August 2006 ,Revised 13 April 2007 ,Accepted 20 April 2007.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.04.018.

PII: S0300-9572(07)00203-1

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.04.018

Resuscitation
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