Orthopaedic triage during natural disasters and mass casualties: Do scoring systems matter?

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1439-1441

  Wolfson, Nikolaj ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LIMB SALVAGE; MASS DISASTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NATURAL DISASTER; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURVIVAL RATE; THE HANOVER FRACTURE SCALE 98; THE LIMB SALVAGE INDEX; THE MANGLED EXTREMITY SEVERITY SCORE; THE NISSSA SCORE; THE PREDICTIVE SALVAGE INDEX; THERAPY DELAY; WAR;

AMPUTATION; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DISASTERS; HUMANS; LIMB SALVAGE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; ORTHOPEDICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE;

EID: 84881226263     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-013-1997-z     Document Type: Review

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