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Operational demands on pre-hospital emergency care for burn injuries in a middle-income setting: a study in the Western Cape, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Burns occur disproportionately within low-socioeconomic populations. The Western Cape Province of South Africa represents a middle-income setting with a high rate of burns, few specialists and few burn centres, yet a well-developed pre-hospital system. This paper describes the burn cases...
Autores principales: | Allgaier, Rachel L., Laflamme, Lucie, Wallis, Lee A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5267612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28124200 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-017-0128-9 |
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