Edward D. Churchill as a combat consultant: Lessons for the senior visiting surgeons and today's military medical corps

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 566-572

  Cannon, Jeremy W ^a   Fischer, Josef E ^b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGEON; WAR;

CONSULTANTS; GENERAL SURGERY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; ILLINOIS; MILITARY MEDICINE; UNITED STATES; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 77649171306     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181d12d3f     Document Type: Review

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