Initial experience of US Marine Corps forward resuscitative surgical system during operation Iraqi freedom

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-32

  Chambers, Lowell W ^a   Rhee, Peter ^b   Baker, Bruce C ^a   Perciballi, John ^c   Cubano, Miguel ^d   Compeggie, Michael ^e   Nace, Michael ^f   Bohman, Harold R ^a  

^a Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^b Naval Trauma Training Center   (United States)

^c Naval Hospital Pensacola   (United States)

^d NAVAL HOSPITAL JACKSONVILLE   (United States)

^e Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune   (United States)

^f US Mar Corps Command Staff Coll   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT CARE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAILOR; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOTOMY; TRAUMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

BLAST INJURIES; HOSPITALS, PACKAGED; HUMANS; IRAQ; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OPERATING ROOMS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 12144274260     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.1.26     Document Type: Article

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