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Improving air medical transport of the trauma patient from the ground

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Joel Lockwood  and
Alun Ackery
Joel Lockwood
Affiliation:
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Alun Ackery*
Affiliation:
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
*
Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Room 1-008 Shuter Wing, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8; alun.ackery@mail.utoronto.ca

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Keywords

air transportcommunicationresidenttrauma
Type
Resident Issues • Problèmes des résidents en médecine
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , May 2014 , pp. 243 - 246
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2014

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