Analysis of life-saving interventions performed by out-of-hospital combat medical personnel

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Gerhardt, Robert T ^a,b,c,e   Berry, Johnathon A ^b,d   Blackbourne, Lorne H ^a,b  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio   (United States)

^d 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne)   (United States)

^e Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Military medicine; Remote damage control resuscitation; trauma resuscitation; War

Indexed keywords

HETASTARCH;

AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FATALITY; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; THORAX DRAINAGE; TOURNIQUET;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSTOMY; TOURNIQUETS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79960407968     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31822190a7     Document Type: Article

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