Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 440-445, April 2010

The importance of pre-trauma centre treatment of life-threatening events on the mortality of patients transferred with severe trauma☆

  • Ernestina Gomes

      Affiliations

    • Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Hospital de Santo António, 4099-001 Porto, Portugal
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +351 917616900; fax: +351 222009483.
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  • Rui Araújo

      Affiliations

    • Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Hospital de Santo António, 4099-001 Porto, Portugal
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  • António Carneiro

      Affiliations

    • Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Hospital de Santo António, 4099-001 Porto, Portugal
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  • Cláudia Dias

      Affiliations

    • Serviço de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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  • Altamiro Costa-Pereira

      Affiliations

    • CINTESIS (Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias da Saúde e Sistemas de Informação em Saúde), Serviço de Bioestatística e Informática Médica, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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  • Fiona E. Lecky

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Audit and Research Network, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, United Kingdom

Received 24 May 2009; received in revised form 15 December 2009; accepted 20 December 2009. published online 18 January 2010.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.014.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00668-6

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.014

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 440-445, April 2010

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