Combat stress or hemorrhage? Evidence for a decision-assist algorithm for remote triage

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 670-676

  Rickards, Caroline A ^a   Ryan, Kathy L ^a   Cooke, William H ^b   Romero, Steven A ^b   Convertino, Victor A ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Military triage; Pulse pressure; Remote monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOVOLEMIA; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PULSE PRESSURE; RR INTERVAL; SOLDIER; TELEMETRY; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PULSE; STRESS; TELEMETRY; TRIAGE; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 46249119375     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2223.2008     Document Type: Article

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