Disaster planning: Transportation resources and considerations for managing a burn disaster

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kearns, Randy D ^a   Hubble, Michael W ^b   Holmes, James H ^c   Cairns, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; AIRCRAFT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BURN; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISASTER PLANNING; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

BURNS; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRIAGE;

EID: 84892825336     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e3182853cf7     Document Type: Article

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