Medical care at mass gatherings: Emergency medical services at large-scale rave events

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-74

  Krul, Jan ^a   Sanou, Björn ^b   Swart, Eleonara L ^c   Girbes, Armand R J ^c  

^a Educare Groningen   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

event medicine; mass gathering medicine; rave

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862072419     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X12000271     Document Type: Review

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