Gunshot and improvised explosive casualties: A report from the Spanish role 2 medical facility in Herat, Afghanistan

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 326-332

  Suay, Ricardo Navarro ^a   de Barbará, Alberto Hernández Abadía ^b   Ortega, Carlos Gutierrez ^b   Cela, Lieutenant Colonel Enrique Bartolomé ^b   Lam, David M ^c,d   Rodríguez, Fernando Gilsanz ^e  

^a Escuela Militar de Sanidad   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CENTRAL DE LA DEFENSA GÓMEZ ULLA   (Spain)

^c FOR LAM US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LEG INJURY; MALE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; SPAIN; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BLAST INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860750248     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00395     Document Type: Article

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