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The Trauma: Focus on Triage

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Intensive and Critical Care Medicine

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Triage is a term used to describe the process of categorizing multiple victims or mass casualty patients into different treatment and evacuation categories [1, 2].

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  1. Flinders University Northern Territory Clinical School, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia

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  1. Department and School of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Catania School of Medicine and University-Hospital, Catania, Italy

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  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Keck Medical School, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Philip D. Lumb

  3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Centro Medico de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

    José Besso

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Plani, F. (2009). The Trauma: Focus on Triage. In: Gullo, A., Lumb, P.D., Besso, J., Williams, G.F. (eds) Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1436-7_28

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