Mobile Intensive Care Units Advanced Emergency Care Delivery Systems
Emergency care is improving throughout the world and thousands of lives are being saved each year. However, there are still too many patients who die before help reaches them in the form of advanced rescue and definitive emergency care techniques. In an e
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Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Anaesthesiologie und Wiederbelebung Anesthesiologie et Reanimation
Editors:
R. Frey, Mainz.· F. Kern, St. Gallen O. Mayrhofer, Wien Managing Editor: H. Bergmann, Linz
Mobile Intensive Care Units Advanced Emergency Care Delivery Systems
Edited by
R. Frey. E. Nagel and P. Safar Assistant Editor: Petra Rheindorf and Patricia Sands
With 67 Figures
Springer -Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-07561-5 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-66284-3
e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-66284-3
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. International Symposium Mobile Intensive Care Units and Advanced Emergeucy Care Units, Mainz 1973. Mobile intensive care units, advanced emergency care delivery systems. IAnaesthesiology and resuscitation; 95) English or German. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Emergency medical services-Congresses. 2. Intensive care units, Mobile-Congresses. I. Frey, Rudolf, 1917 - II. Nagel, Eugene L. III. Safar, Peter. IV. Title. V. Series. [DNLM: 1. Intensive care units-Congresses. 2. Mobile health units-Congresses. 3. Emergency health servicesCongresses. 4. Disasters-Congresses. WI An104E v. 95 / WX218 1615m 1973J RA645.5.157 1973 362.1'04'25 75-45258. The use of general descriptive names, trade marks, etc. in this publication, even if the former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone.
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PREFACE
Emergency care is improving throughout the world and thousands of lives are being saved each year. However, there are still too many patients who die before help reaches them in the form of advanced rescue and definitive emergency care techniques. In an effort to improve emergency care throughout the world, the International Committee of Emergency and Disaster Medicine meets biannually. This meeting takes place in Mainz, Germany in September in order to discuss issues, exchange information, and establish recommendations designed to improve emergency care. The group is in~ dependent of political, national, racial, religious, or commercial influences and, in this sense, similar to the Club of Rome which attempts advances in sociology, biology and natural sciences. Therefore, the organization could be called the "Club of Mainz" for the field of emergency and disaster medicine. The following book contains the proceedings of the International Symposiom on "Mobile Intensive C
