Clinical review: The Israeli experience: Conventional terrorism and critical care

Critical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 490-499

  Aschkenasy Steuer, Gabriella ^a   Shamir, Micha ^a   Rivkind, Avraham ^a   Mosheiff, Rami ^a   Shushan, Yigal ^a   Rosenthal, Guy ^a   Mintz, Yoav ^a   Weissman, Charles ^a   Sprung, Charles L ^a   Weiss, Yoram G ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; BONE INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TERRORISM;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; CRITICAL CARE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LUNG; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TERRORISM; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 27144531615     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc3762     Document Type: Review

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