Immobilization and splinting in mountain rescue

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 337-342

  Ellerton, John ^a,b   Tomazin I, Iztok ^b,c   Brugger, Hermann ^b   Paal, Peter ^b,d  

^a Mountain Rescue Council England and Wales   (United Kingdom)

^b International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine   (Italy)

^c Mountain Rescue Association of Slovenia   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; First aid; Fractures; Immobilization; Mountain rescue; Splints

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ALTITUDE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FIRST AID; HEAD INJURY; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT DISLOCATION; LIMB FRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE WORK; SPINE INJURY; SPLINTING;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MOUNTAINEERING; RESCUE WORK; SPINAL INJURIES; SPLINTS;

EID: 77049100264     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1038     Document Type: Article

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