The importance of vehicle rollover as a field triage criterion

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 350-357

  Champion, Howard R ^a,c   Lombardo, Louis V ^b   Shair, Ellen Kalin ^a  

^a SimQuest LLC   (United States)

^b Louis V Lombardo LLC   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

American College of Surgeons; Death; Field triage criteria; Injury; Vehicle crash; Vehicle rollover

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69349100476     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181aabdc7     Document Type: Review

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