Bushfire disaster burn casualty management: The Australian "black Saturday" bushfire experience

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 460-463

  Seifman, Marc ^a   Ek, Edmund W ^a   Menezes, Hana ^a   Rozen, Warren M ^a   Whitaker, Iain S ^a   Cleland, Heather J ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BURN; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; FIRE; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

BURNS; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; FIRES; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; VICTORIA;

EID: 80054817034     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3182111021     Document Type: Article

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