Eight years experience of a regional burns unit in Saudi Arabia: Clinical and epidemiological aspects

Burns

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 376-380

  Al Shlash, Saud ^a   Warnasuriya, N D ^a   Al Shareef, Z ^a   Filobbos, P ^a   Sarkans, E ^a   Al Dusari, S ^a  

^a NORTH WEST ARMED FORCES HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG BURN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEWBORN; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SCALD; SHOCK; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0030222136     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-4179(95)00169-7     Document Type: Article

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