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J Trauma
; 32(4): 448-51, 1992 Apr.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1569617
RESUMO
The Steamboat Mountain Ski Patrol incorporates local emergency physicians and a visiting trauma surgeon as a second-tier response to life-threatening mountain events. The case of a 48-year-old man surviving a potentially lethal postinjury tension pneumothorax and a review of the 1989-1990 major trauma experience on this ski mountain underscores the value of this concept.