Prehospital trauma care: Scope and practice

Prehospital Trauma Care

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1-18

  Ummenhofer, Wolfgang ^a   Tanigawa, Koichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

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