Amputations in natural disasters and mass casualties: Staged approach

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1983-1988

  Wolfson, Nikolaj ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRUSH SYNDROME; CRUSH TRAUMA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEBRIDEMENT; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FASCIOTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INFECTION RISK; LEG AMPUTATION; MASS DISASTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; NATURAL DISASTER; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WAR; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

AMPUTATION; DISASTERS; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 84867857333     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-012-1573-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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