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General Trauma Care and Related Aspects

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Historically, the development of trauma care and trauma care systems is based on the experiences provided by conflict and war situations all over the world. Military emergency care has led the way to the systematic approach of trauma care for the severely injured patient.

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  1. Department of Trauma Orthopedics, University of Aachen Medical Center, Pauwelsstrasse 30, Aachen, 52074, Germany

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  1. Dept. of Traumatology, Academic Teaching Hospital Celle, Celle, Germany

    Hans-Jörg Oestern

  2. University of Zurich Department of Trauma Surgery, Zürich, Switzerland

    Otmar Trentz

  3. Klinische Abt. Allgemeinchirurgie, Medizinische Universität Graz Universitätsklinik für Chirurgie, Graz, Austria

    Selman Uranues

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Hofman, M., Pape, HC. (2014). Trauma Care Systems. In: Oestern, HJ., Trentz, O., Uranues, S. (eds) General Trauma Care and Related Aspects. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88124-7_1

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