Focused assessment with sonography in trauma prehospital triage: An important tool

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1501-1502

  Tazarourte, Karim ^a   Dekadjevi, Herve ^a   Desmettre, Thibaut ^a   Tourtier, Jean Pierre ^b   Trueba, Francois ^b   Schiano, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b Hopital Instruct Armees V   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLUNT TRAUMA; DEATH; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953047951     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181d8c077     Document Type: Letter

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