Role of resuscitative emergency field thoracotomy in the Japanese helicopter emergency medical service system

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1270-1274

  Matsumoto, Hisashi ^a   Mashiko, Kunihiro ^a   Hara, Yoshiaki ^a   Kutsukata, Noriyoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Yuichiro ^a   Takei, Kenkichi ^a   Kanemaru, Katsuhiro ^a   Tomita, Yoshiteru ^a   Saito, Nobuyuki ^a   Yagi, Takanori ^a   Tetsu, Shinichiro ^a   Iida, Hiroaki ^a   Masuda, Yukiko ^a   Koami, Hiroyuki ^a   Yokota, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Dispatch system; Emergency thoracotomy; Helicopter emergency medical service; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; AIR AMBULANCES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 70350023593     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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