Prehospital use of tranexamic acid for hemorrhagic shock in primary and secondary air medical evacuation

Air Medical Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 289-292

  Vu, Erik Nelson ^a,b   Schlamp, Rob S ^a   Wand, Robert T ^a   Kleine Deters, Geoff A ^a   Vu, Mark P ^a,b   Tallon, John M ^a,b,c  

^a British Columbia Emergency Health Services BC Ambulance Service Provincial AirEvac and Critical Care Operations   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANEXAMIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART RATE; HELICOPTER; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME TO TREATMENT; TRAUMATIC SHOCK; ADOLESCENT; AGED; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR AMBULANCES; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883789153     PISSN: 1067991X     EISSN: 15326497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amj.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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