Connecticut State Special Olympics: Observations and Recommendations

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-36

  Galena, Harold J ^a   Epstein, Charles R ^b   Lourie, Rita J ^c  

^a Immediate Medical Care   (United States)

^b EMS Consulting and Education Firm   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; MENTAL PATIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; STATISTICS; SUNBURN; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHILD; CONNECTICUT; HEAT EXHAUSTION; HUMANS; MENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SPORTS; SUNBURN;

EID: 0031608185     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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