Prehospital Care of the Multiply Injured Patient: The Challenge of Figuring Out What Works

JAMA

Volumn 291, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1382-1384

  Lewis, Roger J ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIRST AID; HOSPITALIZATION; HYPOTENSION; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; NOTE;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BRAIN INJURIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; RESUSCITATION; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC;

EID: 1542506174     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.11.1382     Document Type: Editorial

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