Experience with helicopter rescue missions for crevasse accidents

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 375-379

  Hohlrieder, Matthias ^a,b   Kroesslhuber, Franz ^b   Voelckel, Wolfgang ^c   Lutz, Martin ^d   Mair, Peter ^b,d  

^a Academic Teaching Hospital Feldkirch   (Austria)

^b Austrian Mountain Rescue Service   (Austria)

^c AUVA Trauma Centre   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

alpine accident; asphyxia; hypothermia; mountain rescue; trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; FEMALE; GLACIER; HEART ARREST; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PELVIS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESCUE WORK; RESUSCITATION; THORAX INJURY; WARMING;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ACCIDENTS; ADULT; AIR AMBULANCES; ASPHYXIA; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; RESCUE WORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REWARMING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78650780947     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2010.1027     Document Type: Article

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