Issues related to the use of tourniquets on the battlefield

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 770-775

  Walters, Thomas J ^a   Mabry, Robert L ^b  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; SOLDIER; TOURNIQUET; TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 24944552843     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.9.770     Document Type: Review

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