Emergency Interhospital Transport Of The Major Trauma Patient: Air Versus Ground

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 789-794

  Boyd, Carl R ^a   Corse, Kathleen M ^a   Campbell, Robert C ^a  

^a Memorial Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AMBULANCE; HUMAN; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AMBULANCES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCIES; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; PATIENT TRANSFER; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0024324683     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-198906000-00015     Document Type: Article

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