The effect of prehospital time related variables on mortality following severe thoracic trauma

Injury

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1386-1392

  Kidher, Emaddin ^a   Krasopoulos, George ^b   Coats, Tim ^c   Charitou, Alexandros ^a   Magee, Patrick ^d   Uppal, Rakesh ^d   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b St Luke's Hospital   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chest injury; Emergency thoracotomy and Helicopter Emergency Medical Service HEMS; Prehospital time; Thoracic trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HELICOPTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864280053     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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