Medical emergencies on board commercial airlines: Is documentation as expected?

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sand, Michael ^a   Morrosch, Stephan ^b   Sand, Daniel ^c   Altmeyer, Peter ^a   Bechara, Falk G ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84857696223     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11238     Document Type: Article

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