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Parent topics

• Emergency medicine [r]: Emergency medicine is both a specific medical specialty dealing with the proper care of patients with unexpected injuries or disease, but also the provision of entire systems for such care, beginning with minimal bystander assistance, through field medicine, emergency rooms and trauma centers, and movement to specialized facilities such as burn units and interventional neuroradiology ^[e]

Subtopics

• Advanced trauma life support [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Triage [r]: The process of sorting victims of disease or violence, so the greatest number can be helped with the available resources, and treatment prioritized to have the best chance of preserving life. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Defibrillation [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Incident Command System [r]: An increasingly worldwide set of procedures and doctrines for operational response to emergencies requiring response from different organizations, ranging from multiple units of the same local fire department or police force, to major disasters covering large regions and requiring national or international resources ^[e]
• Permissive hypotension [r]: In trauma patients, a precisely titrated method of fluid replacement, using just enough fluid to raise the blood pressure enough to ensure oxygen perfusion of the brain, but not raising the blood pressure to normal, a level found to dislodge clots ^[e]
• Shock [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Shock (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.

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• Vietnam War [r]: (1955-1975) war that killed 3.8 million people, where North Vietnam fought U.S. forces and eventually took over South Vietnam, forming a single Communist country, Vietnam. ^[e]
• Electronic warfare [r]: A subset of information operations that deals with the use of electromagnetic or kinetic means to degrade an enemy's military electronics systems, to be able to operate one's own electronics in the face of enemy attacks, and to evade those attacks through protection or deception ^[e]
• Damage control surgery [r]: Minimal surgery, before transfer to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, that achieves control of hemorrhage and contamination without exposing the multiply injured patient to the lethal triad caused by excessively long initial operations ^[e]