Occurrence of severe and moderate traumatic brain injury in patients attended in a Brazilian Teaching Hospital: epidemiology and dosage of alcoholemy

This study aimed at observing aspects of epidemiology in order to investigate the use of alcohol in patients older than 18 with severe and moderate traumatic brain injury, which were attended in the Clinics Hospital of the University of Uberlândia. Positive alcoholemy was found in 39.3% of the patie...

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Main Authors: José Weber Vieira de Faria, Sérgio de Andrade Nishioka, Guilherme Leonel Arbex, Gustavo Gil Alarcão, Wender Barbosa de Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2008-03-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2008000100016