Combat Internist: The Internal Medicine Experience in a Combat Hospital in Afghanistan
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Combat internist: the internal medicine experience in a combat hospital in Afghanistan.
Military internists and internal medicine subspecialists are physicians who generally work in traditional internal medicine settings. However, when deployed to combat settings, they must prepare and adapt their skills for a wide spectrum of complex, polytrauma, and multinational patients. There are limitations in personnel, equipment, and technical resources that make the circumstances complex ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0026-4075,1930-613X
DOI: 10.7205/milmed-d-14-00262