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Disaster Preparedness:Train Trauma First Responders in the High-Risk Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Hans Husum
Affiliation:
Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center, University Hospital Northern, Norway
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Abstract

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Type
Poster Presentations
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005

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