Large-scale airmedical transport from a peripheral hospital to level-1 trauma centers after remote mass-casualty incidents in Israel

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 549-555

  Lavon, Ophir ^a   Hershko, Dan ^a   Barenboim, Erez ^a  

^a ISRAELI AIR FORCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MASS DISASTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERRORISM;

AIR AMBULANCES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERRORISM; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 77951625605     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00007500     Document Type: Article

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