Trauma scoring and triage

Trauma: Emergency Resuscitation, Perioperative Anesthesia, Surgical Management

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 59-81

  Levin, Daniela ^a   Bachtis, Costas ^b   Acosta, José A ^c   Jacoby, Irving Jake ^d  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b National Centre of Emergency Care   (Greece)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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