Management of victims in a mass casualty incident caused by a terrorist bombing: Treatment algorithms for stable, unstable, and in extremis victims

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1155-1162

  Alfici, Ricardo ^a   Ashkenazi, Itamar ^a   Kessel, Boris ^a  

^a HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEATH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PENETRATING TRAUMA; TERRORISM;

EID: 33845583883     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.12.1155     Document Type: Article

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