Mass casualty incidents - time to engage

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ben Ishay, Offir ^a   Mitaritonno, Michele ^b   Catena, Fausto ^b   Sartelli, Massimo ^c   Ansaloni, Luca ^d   Kluger, Yoram ^a  

^a Division of Surgery   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Macerata Hospital   (Italy)

^d PAPA GIOVANNI XXIII HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXPLOSION; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; VOICE;

EID: 84956662505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13017-016-0064-7     Document Type: Article

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