Emergency medical services transport decisions in posttraumatic circulatory arrest: Are national practices congruent?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1154-1159

  Brywczynski, Jeremy ^a   McKinney, Jared ^a   Pepe, Paul E ^b   Eckstein, Marc ^c   Myers, J Brent ^d,e   Fowler, Raymond L ^b   Slovis, Corey M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Wake County Raleigh NC ^*  (United States)

^e Wake Emergency Physician PA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt and penetrating; Emergency medical services; Prehospital; Transport decisions; Trauma arrest

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESUSCITATION; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78549268119     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181eda9aa     Document Type: Article

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