Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prehospital intravenous fluids in trauma patients

Health Technology Assessment

Volumn 8, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Dretzke, J ^a   Sandercock, J ^a   Bayliss, S ^a   Burls, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SUBSTITUTE; DEXTRAN 40; DEXTRAN 70; DEXTRAN DERIVATIVE; GELATIN; GELATIN SUCCINATE; GLUCOSE; HARTMANN SOLUTION; HETASTARCH; HYPERHAES; INFUSION FLUID; LACTATE SODIUM; POLYGELINE; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMBULANCE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLOID; CONSENSUS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLOID; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEMORRHAGIC HYPOTENSION; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 17144437997     PISSN: 13665278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3310/hta8230     Document Type: Review

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