Air transport of patients with severe lung injury: Development and utilization of the acute lung rescue team

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2009, Pages

  Dorlac, Gina R ^a   Fang, Raymond ^b   Pruitt, Valerie M ^c   Marco, Peter A ^d   Stewart, Heidi M ^a   Barnes, Stephen L ^a   Dorlac, Warren C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^c KEESLER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Acute lung rescue team; Aeromedical transport; CCATT; Military medicine; Novalung; War and patient transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG INJURY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; BLAST INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AIR AMBULANCES; BLAST INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LUNG INJURY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049097186     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31819cdf72     Document Type: Article

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