Conventional terrorist bomb incidents and the intensive care unit

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 580-584

  Shamir, Micha Y ^a,b   Rivkind, Avraham ^a   Weissman, Charles ^a   Sprung, Charles L ^a   Weiss, Yoram G ^a,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blast injury; Conventional terrorism; Explosion; Intensive care; Multiple casualties incident; Terror

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; BAROTRAUMA; BLAST INJURY; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; BURN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY CARE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFECTION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE HEMATOMA; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG INJURY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RECOVERY ROOM; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TERRORISM; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ISRAEL; TERRORISM;

EID: 28144432097     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ccx.0000186917.92757.e2     Document Type: Review

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