Prehospital emergency care and medical preparedness for the 2005 world championship games in athletics in Helsinki

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 304-311

  Hiltunen, Tuomas ^a   Kuisma, Markku ^a   Määttä, Teuvo ^a   Tennilä, Arto ^b   Hari, Tuomo ^a   Bäckman, Riitta ^c   Väyrynen, Taneli ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b JORVI HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c Finnish Red Cross   (Finland)

Author keywords

emergency medical services; major incident; mass gathering; prehospital; sporting event

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; FINLAND; FIRST AID; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; OBSERVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPORT; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AMBULANCES; ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FINLAND; FIRST AID; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPORTS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 38849145804     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0000491X     Document Type: Article

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