Fluid management in traumatic shock: A practical approach for mountain rescue - Official recommendations of the international commission for mountain emergency medicine (ICAR MEDCOM)

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-75

  Sumann, Günther ^a,b   Paal, Peter ^b   Mair, Peter ^b   Ellerton, John ^c   Dahlberg, Tore ^d   Zen Ruffinen, Gregoire ^e   Zafren, Ken ^f   Brugger, Hermann ^b  

^a General Hospital Voecklabruck   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c Mountain Rescue Council England and Wales   (United Kingdom)

^d Prehospital Division   (Norway)

^e Swiss Air Ambulance   (Switzerland)

^f Alaska Mountain Rescue Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid therapy; Hemorrhage; Mountain rescue; Shock; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; DEXTRAN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESCUE WORK; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC SHOCK;

ALGORITHMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK, TRAUMATIC;

EID: 62449283423     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2008.1067     Document Type: Article

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