Emergency medical service systems in Japan: Past, present, and future

Resuscitation

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-370

  Tanigawa, Koichi ^a   Tanaka, Keiichi ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emergency medical system

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; TRAINING;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; AMBULANCES; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; JAPAN; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; TRIAGE;

EID: 33646869760     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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