Combat casualty care and surgical progress

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 715-729

  Pruitt Jr , Basil A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; AMPUTATION; ANTISEPSIS; BATTLE INJURY; BURN; CAUTERIZATION; COLON INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; DUODENUM INJURY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOREIGN BODY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; ILEUM; JEJUNUM; LAPAROTOMY; LIMB FRACTURE; LIVER INJURY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURE; WAR; WOUND; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; ARTICLE; HISTORY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; SURGERY;

HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MILITARY MEDICINE; SURGERY; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33745313413     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000220038.66466.b5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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