Mass casualty triage after an airplane crash near amsterdam

Injury

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1061-1067

  Postma, Ingri L E ^a,f,h   Weel, Hanneke ^b,f,h   Heetveld, Martin J ^c,h   Dan Der Zande, Ineke ^d,h   Bijlsma, Taco S ^e,g,h   Bloemers, Frank W ^b,h   Goslings, Carel J ^a,h  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Surgery ^*  (Netherlands)

^d Safety Region Kennemerland   (Netherlands)

^e Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Netherlands)

^f Tergooi Hospitals   (Netherlands)

^g Medical Centre Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^h MOTAC study group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Baxt criteria; Mass casualty incident; Spinal immobilization; Triage; Walking wounded

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AMBULANCE; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LACERATION; LUNG CONTUSION; MASS DISASTER; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INJURY; SURVIVOR; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TIBIA FRACTURE; WALKING;

AIRCRAFT; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL INJURIES; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84893653031     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2013.03.038     Document Type: Article

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