Evaluation of transportation of traumatic patients to a trauma center in Tehran
As the effectively transportation of injured patients is one of the most important concerns in developed countries, we tried to evaluate the patients transportation to Sina hospital trauma center in this regard. During an eighty-day period, 200 injured patients were transported to Sina hospital with...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | fas |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
1999-06-01
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Series: | Tehran University Medical Journal |
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Online Access: | http://journals.tums.ac.ir/PdfMed.aspx?pdf_med=/upload_files/pdf/5699.pdf&manuscript_id=5699 |
Summary: | As the effectively transportation of injured patients is one of the most important concerns in developed countries, we tried to evaluate the patients transportation to Sina hospital trauma center in this regard. During an eighty-day period, 200 injured patients were transported to Sina hospital with intravenous cannula inserted only in 17.5 percent and fracture fixation was accomplished in only 8.5 percent of patients. We coucluded that the transportation quality was rather poor and more attention should be paid to this social problem |
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ISSN: | 1683-1764 1735-7322 |