Prehospital Care of the Injured: What's New

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-53

  Bulger, Eileen M ^a   Maier, Ronald V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SUBSTITUTE; DEXTRAN 70; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; POLYACRYLAMIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RINGER SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ZEOLITE;

AIRWAY; BLEEDING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRISMUS;

BRAIN INJURIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FLUID THERAPY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SPINAL INJURIES; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33751240476     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2006.09.009     Document Type: Review

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