Prehospital care and trauma systems

Trauma: Emergency Resuscitation, Perioperative Anesthesia, Surgical Management

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 43-58

  Christensen, Erika Frischknecht ^a   Deakin, Charles D ^b   Vilke, Gary M ^c   Lippert, Freddy K ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Department of Prehospital Care and Emergency Medicine   (Denmark)

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