A review of intraosseous vascular access: Current status and military application

Military Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 552-559

  Dubick, Michael A ^a   Holcomb, John B ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADRENALIN; AMIKACIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ATROPINE; BUPIVACAINE; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; DIGOXIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; EPHEDRINE; FENTANYL; INFUSION FLUID; ISOPRENALINE; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PANCURONIUM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL; UNINDEXED DRUG; VECURONIUM;

ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLOOD SAMPLING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRAOSSEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; SAFETY; TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 0033910963     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/165.7.552     Document Type: Article

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