Equipment of medical backpacks in mountain rescue

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 343-347

  Elsensohn, Fidel ^a   Soteras, Inigo ^b   Resiten, Oliver ^c   Ellerton, John ^d   Brugger, Hermann ^a,e   Paal, Peter ^f  

^a International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (ICAR MEDCOM)   (Austria)

^b Cerdanya Cross Border Hospital   (Spain)

^c Kantonale Walliser Rettungsorganisation ^*  (Switzerland)

^d Mountain Rescue Council England and Wales   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

backpack; backpack Emergency medical service; medical equipment; mountain rescue; prehospital emergency care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESCUE WORK; RESUSCITATION;

COLD TEMPERATURE; DEFIBRILLATORS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MOUNTAINEERING; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESCUE WORK;

EID: 84855173235     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2010.1048     Document Type: Article

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