Effectiveness of a "doctor-helicopter" system in Japan

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-11

  Matsumoto, Hisashi ^a   Mashiko, Kunihiro ^a   Hara, Yoshiaki ^a   Sakamoto, Yuichiro ^a   Kutsukata, Noriyoshi ^a   Takei, Kenkichi ^a   Tomita, Yoshiteru ^a   Ueno, Yukihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airborne trauma surgeons; Helicopter emergency medical system; Probability of survival

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HELICOPTER; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROBABILITY; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR AMBULANCES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 30944439689     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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