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Geriatric trauma
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, USA.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
|March 13, 1998
Abstract:
This article reviews the salient aspects of geriatric trauma, including common injury mechanisms, physiologic differences in elderly patients, and their prehospital and emergency department evaluation. Specific organ injuries and associated mortality are also discussed.