Deployment morbidity among search-and-rescue dogs used after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 225, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 868-873

  Slensky, Kimberly A ^a   Drobatz, Kenneth J ^a   Downend, Amanda B ^a   Otto, Cynthia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DOG; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEAT STROKE; INJURY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRORISM; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; RESCUE WORK; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TERRORISM; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 4544373875     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2004.225.868     Document Type: Article

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