Wilderness medicine

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1027-1048

  Townes, David Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLOTHING; ENVIRONMENT; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RESEARCH; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; WATER TREATMENT;

CAMPING; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EXPEDITIONS; FIRST AID; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MOUNTAINEERING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0036952414     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4543(02)00054-4     Document Type: Review

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15. Information taken from D.A. Townes personal correspondence.
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