The provision of sophisticated critical care beyond the hospital: Lessons from physiology and military experiences that apply to civil disaster medical response

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Grissom, Thomas E ^a,b   Farmer, J Christopher ^c,d  

^a Ctr Sustainment Trauma Readiness S   (United States)

^b R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER   (United States)

^c Div Pulmon and Critical Care Med   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeromedical evacuation; Austere critical care; Disaster critical care; Intensive care unit air transport; Portable intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTACID AGENT; ATROPINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; DIAZEPAM; DIGOXIN; DIMENHYDRINATE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOPAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOSE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HALOPERIDOL; HEPARIN; ISOPRENALINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE; PARACETAMOL; PERCOCET; PETHIDINE; PHENYTOIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROPRANOLOL; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE;

AIR FORCE; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARMY; DEVICE; DISASTER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HUMAN; INFUSION SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VENTILATOR;

AIR AMBULANCES; CRITICAL CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MILITARY MEDICINE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 12244252257     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000151063.85112.5A     Document Type: Review

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