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Man or machine? An experimental study of prehospital emergency amputation

OBJECTIVE: Prehospital emergency amputation is a rare procedure, which may be necessary to free a time-critical patient from entrapment. This study aimed to evaluate four techniques of cadaveric lower limb prehospital emergency amputation. METHOD: A guillotine amputation of the distal femur was unde...

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Autores principales: Leech, Caroline, Porter, Keith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27280425
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2015-204881