Four years of burn injuries in a Red Cross hospital in Afghanistan

Burns

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 563-568

  Calder, F ^a,b  

^a International Committee of the Red Cross   (Switzerland)

^b Alders   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burns; Epidemiology; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BURN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FIRE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEWBORN; RED CROSS; SEPSIS; SKIN GRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BURNS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RED CROSS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036768547     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(02)00071-2     Document Type: Article

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