Out-of-Hospital Combat Casualty Care in the Current War in Iraq

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-174

  Gerhardt, Robert T ^a,b,c   De Lorenzo, Robert A ^a,b   Oliver, Jeffrey ^c,d   Holcomb, John B ^e   Pfaff, James A ^a  

^a BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^c 1st Cavalry Division   (United States)

^d WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR;

ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249142003     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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