Aetiology of cardiac arrest in a ‘trauma patient’: Exploiting trauma CT for concomitant cardiac assessment
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London Trauma and Cardiac Arrest Conference 2013
The seventh London Trauma Conference was once again held at The Royal Geographical Society in London from 10–13 December 2013. Over four days the latest innovations and best practice in cardiac, trauma and pre-hospital trauma care were presented and discussed. It opened with the London Cardiac Arrest Symposium, kindly sponsored by Zoll, with Dr David Zideman providing the Douglas Chamberlain Le...
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عنوان ژورنال: Injury Extra
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1572-3461
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2013.12.001