Forward surgical teams provide comparable outcomes to combat support hospitals during support and stabilization operations on the battlefield

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2009, Pages

  Eastridge, Brian J ^a   Stansbury, Lynn G ^a   Stinger, Harry ^a   Blackbourne, Lorne ^a   Holcomb, John B ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Battlefield; Combat; Forward surgical team; Hospital; Injury; Trauma; War

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BATTLE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTILATOR; WOUND; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; SURVIVAL; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HOSPITALS, PACKAGED; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049107362     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31819ce315     Document Type: Review

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