ATLS® and damage control in spine trauma
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ATLS® and damage control in spine trauma
Substantial inflammatory disturbances following major trauma have been found throughout the posttraumatic course of polytraumatized patients, which was confirmed in experimental models of trauma and in vitro settings. As a consequence, the principle of damage control surgery (DCS) has developed over the last two decades and has been successfully introduced in the treatment of severely injured p...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Emergency Surgery
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1749-7922
DOI: 10.1186/1749-7922-4-9