Arterial line in prehospital emergency settings - A feasibility study in four physician-staffed emergency medical systems

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1198-1201

  Wildner, Gernot ^a   Pauker, Nina ^b   Archan, Sylvia ^a   Gemes, Geza ^a   Rigaud, Marcel ^a   Pocivalnik, Mirjam ^b   Prause, Gerhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Medizinercorps Graz   (Austria)

Author keywords

Advanced life support (ALS); Blood gases; Blood pressure; Emergency medical services; Monitoring; Shock

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79961129556     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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