Prehospital trauma care reduces mortality. Ten-year results from a time-cohort and trauma audit study in Iraq

Prehospital trauma care reduces mortality. Ten-year results from a time-cohort and trauma audit study in Iraq

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Blunt implementation of Western trauma system models is not feasible in low-resource communities with long prehospital transit times. The aims of the study were to evaluate to which extent a low-cost prehospital trauma system reduces...

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Main Authors: Murad Mudhafar K, Larsen Stig, Husum Hans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-02-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Iraq
Land mine
Life support
Prehospital
Severity indices
Trauma audit
Trauma mortality
War
Online Access:http://www.sjtrem.com/content/20/1/13

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