Aero-medical evacuation from the second Israel - Lebanon war: A descriptive study

Military Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 551-556

  Schwartz, Dagan ^a,b   Resheff, Avram ^a   Geftler, Alex ^a   Weiss, Aviram ^c   Birenbaum, Erez ^a   Lavon, Ophir ^a,d  

^a ISRAELI AIR FORCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Trauma Branch   (Israel)

^d RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOLDIER; WAR;

AIR AMBULANCES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; WAR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77949361000     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-03-0008     Document Type: Article

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