Survival benefit of helicopter emergency medical services compared to ground emergency medical services in traumatized patients

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Andruszkow, Hagen ^a,d   Lefering, Rolf ^b   Frink, Michael ^c   Mommsen, Philipp ^d   Zeckey, Christian ^d   Rahe, Katharina ^d   Krettek, Christian ^d   Hildebrand, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^d HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; CHEST TUBE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; GROUND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE; HEAD INJURY; HELICOPTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTUBATION; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDATION; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SPINE INJURY; SURVIVAL; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AIR AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879086439     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc12796     Document Type: Article

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