Medical evacuation and triage of combat casualties in Helmand Province, Afghanistan: October 2010-April 2011

Military Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1261-1266

  Clarke, Jonathan E ^a   Davis, Peter R ^a  

^a Emergency Department   (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84871242978     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00120     Document Type: Article

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