Augmentation of point of injury care: Reducing battlefield mortality - The IDF experience

Injury

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 993-1000

  Avi, Benov ^a,b   Elon, Glassberg ^a   Baruch, Erez Nissim ^a   Avi, Shina ^a   Gilad, Twig ^a   Moran, Levi ^a   Itay, Zoarets ^a   Ram, Sagi ^a,c   Tarif, Bader ^a,c   David, Dagan ^a   Avraham, Yitzhak ^a   Yitshak, Kreiss ^c,d  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mortality; My Brother's Keeper; Preventable death; Trauma

Indexed keywords

TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE FATALITY RATE; EYE INJURY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FIGHTING; GAUZE DRESSING; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; PELVIS INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POINT OF INJURY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; THORAX INJURY; TOURNIQUET; YOUNG ADULT; CIVIL DEFENSE; ISRAEL; MASS DISASTER; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WARFARE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

CIVIL DEFENSE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; ISRAEL; MALE; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; WARFARE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84951299266     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.10.078     Document Type: Article

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