The Surgeon
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 101-104 , April 2010

Emergency pre-hospital care of burn patients

  • Thomas Muehlberger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, DRK-Kliniken Berlin Westend, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 30 8322 9622.
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  • Christian Ottomann

      Affiliations

    • Burn Center, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Nidal Toman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, DRK-Kliniken Berlin Westend, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, Germany
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  • Adrien Daigeler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, BG-Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
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  • Marcus Lehnhardt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, BG-Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany

Received 14 October 2009 ,Accepted 22 October 2009.

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PII: S1479-666X(09)00002-X

doi: 10.1016/j.surge.2009.10.001

The Surgeon
Volume 8, Issue 2 , Pages 101-104 , April 2010

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