Casualties of war - Military care for the wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 2471-2475

  Gawande, Atul ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GUNSHOT INJURY; IRAQ; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MILITARY SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AFGHANISTAN; BLAST INJURIES; EYE INJURIES; HUMANS; IRAQ; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 10044273152     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp048317     Document Type: Review

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