Results of streamlined regional ambulance transport and subsequent treatment of acute abdominal aortic aneurysms

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 807-810

  Haveman, Jan Willem ^a   Karliczek, A ^a   Verhoeven, E L G ^a   Tielliu, I F J ^a   de Vos, R ^b   Zwaveling, J H ^a   van den Dungen, J J A M ^a   Zeebregts, C J ^a   Nijsten, M W N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Regional Ambulance Services   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AMBULANCE; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; ACUTE DISEASE; AORTA RUPTURE; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AMBULANCES; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE;

EID: 39049183288     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.037879     Document Type: Article

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