Incidence and predictors of critical events during urgent air-medical transport

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 181, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 579-584

  Singh, Jeffrey M ^a,b   MacDonald, Russell D ^a,b   Bronskill, Susan E ^c   Schull, Michael J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Ornge Transport Medicine   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESUSCITATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AIR AMBULANCES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70449565176     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.080886     Document Type: Article

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