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Critical Energy Infrastructure and Health: How Loss of Power May Kill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2023

Fredrik Granholm*
Affiliation:
Medical Director, Swedish Air Ambulance (SLA), Mora, Sweden
Derrick Tin
Affiliation:
Senior Fellow and Faculty, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship; Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Gregory R. Ciottone
Affiliation:
Director, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship; Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
*
Correspondence: Fredrik Granholm, MD Medical Director Swedish Air Ambulance (SLA) Mora, Sweden Bradgatan 9, 85460 Sundsvall Sweden E-mail: fredrik.granholm@regiondalarna.se

Abstract

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Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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