Addition of physicians to paramedic helicopter services decreases blunt trauma mortality

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 697-701

  Garner, Alan ^a   Rashford, Stephen ^a   Lee, Anna ^a   Bartolacci, Robert ^a  

^a NRMA CareFlight   (Australia)

Author keywords

Helicopter emergency medical services; Paramedics; Physicians; Trauma; TRISS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR AMBULANCES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FLUID THERAPY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0032850324     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.1999.01688.x     Document Type: Article

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