Prehospital endotracheal intubation and chest tubing does not prolong the overall resuscitation time of severely injured patients: A retrospective, multicentrestudy of the Trauma Registry of the German Society of Trauma Surgery

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 497-501

  Kulla, Martin ^a   Helm, Matthias ^a   Lefering, Rolf ^b   Walcher, Felix ^c  

^a BUNDESWEHRKRANKENHAUS ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; OXYGEN TENSION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMA RESUSCITATION TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHEST TUBES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84861806899     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2010.107391     Document Type: Article

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