Floods and Tsunamis

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 557-578

  Llewellyn, Mark ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAPENEM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID; VECURONIUM;

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLUNT TRAUMA; BONE INJURY; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEBRIDEMENT; DISASTER; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MELIOIDOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE SPASM; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TETANUS; TSUNAMI; WATER CONTAMINATION; WOUND INFECTION;

DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NATURAL DISASTERS; RELIEF WORK; RESCUE WORK; TRIAGE; WATER; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33744968930     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2006.02.006     Document Type: Review

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