Opinions of trauma practitioners regarding prehospital interventions for critically injured patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 509-517

  Salomone, Jeffrey P ^a,c   Ustin, Jeffrey S ^a   McSwain Jr , Norman E ^b   Feliciano, David V ^a   Shatz, David V ^c   Block, Ernest F ^c   Mattox, Kenneth L ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Glenn Memorial Building ^*

Author keywords

Airway management; Emergency medical services; Intravenous fluid resuscitation; Pneumatic antishock garment; Prehospital care; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTUBATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE; SHOCK; SURGEON;

ADULT; ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRICOID CARTILAGE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FLUID THERAPY; GRAVITY SUITS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXIMETRY; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 14944360678     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000152807.63559.2E     Document Type: Article

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