Impact of mobile clinical analyzers on disaster medicine: A lesson from crush syndrome in the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 259-262

  Kubota, Meri ^a   Ishida, Hiromi ^b   Kojima, Yoshitada ^b   Fukuda, Atsuhisa ^b   Mizushima, Yasuaki ^b   Mizobata, Yasumitsu ^b   Matsuoka, Tetsuya ^b   Yokota, Junichiro ^b  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; EARTHQUAKES; MEDICINE;

MOBILE CLINICAL ANALYZERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ELECTROLYTE; HEPARIN;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD GAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRUSH SYNDROME; DISASTER; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

AMBULANCES; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRUSH SYNDROME; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; JAPAN; NATURAL DISASTERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TRIAGE;

EID: 0042624923     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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