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Spine Injuries in Mass Casualties

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When preparing for a disaster or entering a disaster zone, one must stay organized and ready [1]. Remember that different types of disasters will lead to different types of injuries.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, 80045, USA

    Evalina L. Burger BMedSc, MBCh B, M Med (ortho) & V. V. Patel MD, MS, BSME

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  1. Department of Orthopedics, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

    Nikolaj Wolfson

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Bar Ilan Univ, Ziv Medical Ctr, Zefat, Israel

    Alexander Lerner

  3. Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma, Clinical and Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

    Leonid Roshal

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Burger, E.L., Patel, V.V. (2016). Spine Injuries in Mass Casualties. In: Wolfson, N., Lerner, A., Roshal, L. (eds) Orthopedics in Disasters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48950-5_31

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