External blood loss estimation using the MAR Method

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1085-1090

  Merlin, Mark A ^a   Alter, Scott M ^b   Raffel, Brian ^a   Pryor II, Peter W ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VOLUME; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERROR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

ADULT; BLOOD VOLUME DETERMINATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HAND; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRIAGE;

EID: 70449481624     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2008.07.039     Document Type: Article

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