HEMS vs. EMS Transfer for Acute Aortic Dissection Type A

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 146-153

  Knobloch, Karsten ^a   Dehn, Imke ^a   Khaladj, Nawid ^a   Hagl, Christian ^a   Vogt, Peter M ^a   Haverich, Axel ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HELICOPTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRCRAFT; AMBULANCES; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65449174372     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: 15326497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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