Helicopter rescue and prehospital care for drowning children: Two summer season case studies

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 703-707

  Barbieri, S ^a   Feltracco, P ^a   Delantone, M ^b   Spagna, A ^a   Michieletto, E ^a   Bortolato, A ^a   Ori, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Emergency Medical Service 118 of Mestre   (Italy)

Author keywords

Immersion; Resuscitation; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DROWNING; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; PEDIATRIC ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUMMER; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; AIR AMBULANCES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEAR DROWNING; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 59849125914     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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