Ultrasound and ski resort clinics: Mapping out the potential benefits

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-247

  Evans, C Scott ^a   Harris, N Stuart ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

bedside ultrasound; mountainside clinic; prehospital ultrasound; skier injury; snowboarder injury

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE DISEASE; DISLOCATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INSTRUMENTATION; KNEE INJURY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIING; SPORT INJURY;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISLOCATIONS; ELBOW JOINT; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KNEE INJURIES; SKIING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84865350848     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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