First aid and travellers

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 141-143

  Leggat, Peter A ^a,c   Pearn, John H ^b,c   Dürrheim, David N ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c St John Ambulance Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EDITORIAL; FIRST AID; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL CARE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; TRAVEL;

EID: 15944395713     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1477-8939(02)00006-6     Document Type: Editorial

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