Initial assessment, triage, and basic and advanced life support

Prehospital Trauma Care

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 181-201

  Mauger, Jeremy ^a   Deakin, Charles D ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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