Infectious Complications of Noncombat Trauma Patients Provided Care at a Military Trauma Center
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Infectious complications of noncombat trauma patients provided care at a military trauma center.
Infectious complications are reported frequently in combat trauma patients treated at military hospitals. Infections in 4566 noncombat related trauma patients treated at a military trauma center were retrospectively reviewed from 1/2003 to 5/2007 using registry data. Burns, penetrating, and blunt trauma accounted for 17%, 19%, and 64%, respectively; the median age was 38 and 22% were female. Pu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0026-4075,1930-613X
DOI: 10.7205/milmed-d-09-00098