Prehospital Care
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Prehospital Care
The emergence of emergency medical services (EMS) as a realm within emergency medicine (EM) has recently been completed, with EMS gaining status as a boarded subspe-cialty. While there are excellent journals and a rich literature addressing EMS and out-of-hospital care, we embraced, with enthusiasm, the invitation of the editors to coordinate an EMS-related special issue on prehospital Care. Th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine International
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2090-2840,2090-2859
DOI: 10.1155/2012/965480