The golden hour of shock - How time is running out: Prehospital time intervals in Germany - A multivariate analysis of 15, 103 patients from the TraumaRegister DGU®

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1048-1055

  Wyen, Hendrik ^a,b   Lefering, Rolf ^b   Maegele, Marc ^b   Brockamp, Thomas ^b   Wafaisade, Arasch ^b   Wutzler, Sebastian ^a   Walcher, Felix ^a   Marzi, Ingo ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TIME TO TREATMENT;

ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 84887820768     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201962     Document Type: Article

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