Minor morbidity with emergency tourniquet use to stop bleeding in severe limb trauma: Research, history, and reconciling advocates and abolitionists

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 817-823

  Kragh Jr , John F ^a   O'Neill, Michelle L ^b   Walters, Thomas J ^a   Jones, John A ^a   Baer, David G ^a   Gershman, Leigh K ^c   Wade, Charles E ^a   Holcomb, John B ^d  

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

^b TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Texas Health Sciences Center ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LIMB; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOURNIQUET;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; POLYNEUROPATHIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOURNIQUETS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051603692     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00417     Document Type: Article

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