Ejection as a key word for the dispatch of a physician staffed helicopter: The Swiss experience

Resuscitation

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 169-173

  Schoettker, Patrick ^a   Ravussin, Patrick ^a,b   Moeschler, Olivier ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital de Sion   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Intubation; Outcome; Resuscitation; Thoracocentesis; Transport

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; FIRST AID; HEALTH SERVICE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SURGERY; SWITZERLAND; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR AMBULANCES; AUTOMOBILES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034995011     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(00)00356-7     Document Type: Article

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