MEDEVAC: Survival and physiological parameters improved with higher level of flight medic training

Military Medicine

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 529-536

  Holland, Seth R ^a   Apodaca, Amy ^a   Mabry, Robert L ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MORTALITY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; STANDARDS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; ARTICLE; INJURY; STANDARD;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84877276270     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-12-00286     Document Type: Article

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