Pressure immobilization of snakebite [2]

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 70-71

  Gray, Stuart ^a  

^a Grad Dip Recreation   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDAGE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHEDEMA; SNAKEBITE; SPLINT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; VICTIM;

EID: 0037343656     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2003)014[0073:LTTE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Letter

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