使用拯救生命的干预措施来确定紧急医疗服务所遇到的成年人中最佳生命体征范围

Sriram Ramgopal1, Clifton W Callaway2, Christian Martin-Gill2

  • 1Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IllinoisUSA.

概括

紧急医疗服务 (EMS) 中成年人的新生命体征范围可以预测需要拯救生命的干预 (LSI). 这些发现有助于在医院前紧急情况中识别严重疾病和伤害.

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