Efficacy of pre-hospital care in trauma patients in Iran

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 430-432

  Khashayar, Patricia ^a   Amoli, Hadi Ahmadi ^a   Tavakoli, Hassan ^b   Panahi, Farzad ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANDAGING TECHNIQUE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INJURY; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLINTING; WOUND CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77953765296     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.071738     Document Type: Article

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