Trauma-related dispatch criteria for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Europe

Injury

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 525-533

  Wigman, Laura D ^a   Van Lieshout, Esther M M ^a   De Ronde, Gijs ^a   Patka, Peter ^a   Schipper, Inger B ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dispatch criteria; Europe; Helicopter Emergency Medical Services; HEMS; Pre hospital care; Trauma; Trauma helicopter

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BURN; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMORBIDITY; DISPATCH CRITERIA; DIVING; DROWNING; ELECTRIC ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC INJURY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EUROPE; FALLING; FINGER AMPUTATION; FLAIL CHEST; FRACTURE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART ARREST; HELICOPTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HYPOTENSION; INJURY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LUNG BURN; MASS DISASTER; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEAR DROWNING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESUSCITATION; SHOCK; SKULL FRACTURE; SPEECH DISORDER; SPINE INJURY; SPORT INJURY; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PENETRATING TRAUMA; THUMB AMPUTATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

AIR AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE;

EID: 79953677227     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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