Decreased mortality after prehospital interventions in severely injured trauma patients

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 227-231

  Meizoso, Jonathan P ^a   Valle, Evan J ^a   Allen, Casey J ^a   Ray, Juliet J ^a   Jouria, Jassin M ^a   Teisch, Laura F ^a   Shatz, David V ^b   Namias, Nicholas ^a   Schulman, Carl I ^a   Proctor, Kenneth G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

interventions; lifesaving; Prehospital; scoop and run; stay and play

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BURN; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEEDLE DECOMPRESSION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREHOSPITAL INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; REVISED TRAUMA SCORE; SCORING SYSTEM; TOURNIQUET; TRACHEOTOMY; TRAUMA AND INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; URBAN POPULATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938563843     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000748     Document Type: Article

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