Swedish emergency hospital surgical surge capacity to mass casualty incidents
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Duration and predictors of emergency surgical operations - basis for medical management of mass casualty incidents
BACKGROUND Hospitals have a critically important role in the management of mass causality incidents (MCI), yet there is little information to assist emergency planners. A significantly limiting factor of a hospital's capability to treat those affected is its surgical capacity. We therefore intended to provide data about the duration and predictors of life saving operations. METHODS The data o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1757-7241
DOI: 10.1186/s13049-020-0701-8