The Alfred Trauma Team Training Program in India and Sri Lanka

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 632-639

  O'Reilly, Gerard M ^a,b,d,e   Fitzgerald, Mark ^b,c   Dewan, Yashbir ^f,g   Chou, Kylie ^a,b   Mathew, Joseph ^a   Peters, Nitin ^h  

^a Emergency and Trauma Centre   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c Trauma Services   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Melbourne   (Australia)

^f FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

^g Neurotrauma Society of India   (India)

^h CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Education; Resuscitation; Wound and injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; INDIA; INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RESUSCITATION; SKILL; SRI LANKA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRAINING; WOUND CARE;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; INSERVICE TRAINING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SRI LANKA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80054084250     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01459.x     Document Type: Article

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