Meeting the challenges of spinal cord injury care following sudden onset disaster - Lesons learned

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 414-420

  Burns, Anthony S ^a   O'Connell, Colleen ^b   Rathore, Farooq A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Healing Hands for Haiti/Team Canada Healing Hands   (Canada)

^c National Institute of Heart Diseases National University of Medical Sciences   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Disaster planning; Disasters; Earthquakes; Paraplegia; Quadriplegia; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA; RELIEF WORK; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PARAPLEGIA; QUADRIPLEGIA; RELIEF WORK; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861082158     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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