Injury patterns of soldiers in the second Lebanon war

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 160-166

  Schwartz, Dagan ^a   Glassberg, Elon ^a   Nadler, Roy ^a   Hirschhorn, Gil ^a   Marom, Ophir Cohen ^a   Aharonson Daniel, Limor ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Combat casualties; Injury Severity Score (ISS); Military medicine

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BURN; CRUSH TRAUMA; FATALITY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERVIEW; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NURSE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER; SURVIVOR; THORAX INJURY; WAR;

EID: 84892158856     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182a9680e     Document Type: Article

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