Injuries occurring in hospital staff attending medical emergency team (MET) calls-A prospective, observational study

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1351-1356

  Cheung, Winston ^a,c   Gullick, Janice ^a,b   Thanakrishnan, Govindasamy ^a   Jacobs, Rodney ^a   Au, Winnie ^a   Uy, Joan ^a   Fick, Margaretha ^a   Narayan, Pradeep ^a   Ralston, Sue ^c   Tan, Jeff ^a  

^a Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency medical services; Emergency treatment; Medical emergency team; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ANKLE SPRAIN; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLISTER; BODY FLUID; COMPRESSION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNEE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; REST; RESUSCITATION; SHOULDER PAIN; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URBAN AREA; WORK SCHEDULE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70449703253     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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