Air transportation of patients with end-stage liver disease to distant liver transplantation centers

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 650-655

  Shibolet, Oren ^a   Rowe, Mina ^a   Safadi, Rifaat ^a   Levy, Izhar ^a   Zamir, Gideon ^a   Eid, Ahmed ^a   Donchin, Yoel ^a   Ilan, Yaron ^a   Shouval, Daniel ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BICARBONATE; DOPAMINE; LACTULOSE; LIDOCAINE; PARACETAMOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; AVIATION; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHINA; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; ITALY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AIR AMBULANCES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 21044449612     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20399     Document Type: Article

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