Prehospital trauma care reduces mortality. Ten-year results from a time-cohort and trauma audit study in Iraq

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Murad, Mudhafar K ^a,b   Larsen, Stig ^c   Husum, Hans ^d  

^a Trauma Care Foundation Iraq   (Iraq)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Iraq; Land mine; Life support; Prehospital; Severity indices; Trauma audit; Trauma mortality; War

Indexed keywords

CLIOQUINOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; IRAQ; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; TRAUMATOLOGY; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BURNS; CHILD; CLIOQUINOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRAUMATOLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856421476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-20-13     Document Type: Article

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