Randomized crossover trial comparing physical strain on advanced life support providers during transportation using real-time automated feedback

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 860-867

  Havel, Christof ^a   Van Tulder, Raphael ^a   Schreiber, Wolfgang ^a   Haugk, Moritz ^a   Richling, Nina ^a   Trimmel, Helmut ^b   Malzer, Reinhard ^c   Herkner, Harald ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b General Hospital Wiener Neustadt   (Austria)

^c Vienna Municipal Ambulance Service   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FITNESS; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LACTATES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS;

EID: 80051964741     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01124.x     Document Type: Article

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