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 ,Revised 15 December 2009 ,Accepted 20 December 2009.

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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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