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prehospitally

prehospitally adverb: before a patient's admission to hospital.

Adverb

prehospitally (not comparable)

  1. Before a patient's admission to hospital.
    • Traditionally, early endotracheal intubation–as the gold standard of airway management–has been advocated for TBI patients with a GCS score ≤ 8, but this dogma is currently being challenged by publications that suggest higher mortality in patients who are prehospitally intubated.2015 October 24, “Experience in Prehospital Endotracheal Intubation Significantly Influences Mortality of Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS...

Origin of prehospitally

From prehospital + -ly.

Questions about prehospitally

What does prehospitally mean?
Prehospitally means before a patient's admission to hospital.
What part of speech is prehospitally?
Prehospitally is an adverb.

Words near prehospitally in the dictionary

  1. prehormone
  2. prehormones
  3. prehorse
  4. prehospital
  5. prehospitalization
  6. prehospitally
  7. prehostility
  8. prehuman
  9. prehumans
  10. prehumiliation
  11. prehumous

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