The clinical and technical evaluation of a remote telementored telesonography system during the acute resuscitation and transfer of the injured patient

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1209-1216

  Dyer, Dianne ^c   Cusden, Jane ^f   Turner, Chris ^f   Boyd, Jeff ^f   Hall, Rob ^d   Lautner, David ^e   Hamilton, Douglas R ^g   Shepherd, Lance ^f   Dunham, Michael ^a,b,c   Bigras, Andre ^h   Bigras, Guy ^h   McBeth, Paul ^a,c   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^a,b,c,e  

^a Departments of Surgery   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Regional Trauma Services   (Canada)

^d Departments of Emergency Medicine and Radiology   (Canada)

^e FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f Banff Mineral Springs Hospital   (Canada)

^g WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^h Telesat   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical care; Resuscitation; Telemedicine; Teleultrasound; Traumatic injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERNET; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RESUSCITATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TELERADIOLOGY; VIDEOCONFERENCING; CANADA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRUSH SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT CARE; PILOT STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIING; SPORT INJURY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECONSULTATION; TELEMETRY;

ADULT; ALBERTA; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CRUSH SYNDROME; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT TRANSFER; PILOT PROJECTS; PNEUMOTHORAX; REMOTE CONSULTATION; RESUSCITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIING; SOFTWARE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEMETRY; TRAUMA CENTERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650586804     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181878052     Document Type: Article

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