Prehospital interventions: Time wasted or time saved? An observational cohort study management in initial trauma care

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 444-449

  van der Velden, M W A ^a   Ringburg, A N ^a   Bergs, E A ^a   Steyerberg, E W ^a   Patka, P ^a   Schipper, I B ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HELICOPTER; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SPLINTING; THORAX DRAINAGE; TIME MANAGEMENT; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 47349131709     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.052662     Document Type: Article

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