Tourniquets: Another adjunct in damage control?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-9

  Moore, Frederick A ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ACCIDENT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AMPUTATION; ARMY; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONSENSUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; FASCIOTOMY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAQ; LIMB INJURY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PERFUSION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SWELLING; TISSUE INJURY; TOURNIQUET; INJURY; LIMB; NOTE; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EXTREMITIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IRAQ; MILITARY PERSONNEL; TOURNIQUETS; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 58749091866     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181932329     Document Type: Editorial

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