Effect of vital signs on advanced life support interventions for prehospital patients.
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Prehospital Emergency Care
- Vol. 1 (3), 145-148
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10903129708958808
Abstract
Routine vital signs assessment is considered a fundamental component of patient assessment. This study was undertaken to determine whether advanced life support (ALS) emergency medical services (EMS) providers depend on vital signs information in managing their patients.Keywords
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