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Anesthesia and Intensive Care of the Patient with Severe Extremity Trauma

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The principles of anesthesia for the armed conflict patient require a broader view and must consider a host of anesthetic aspects both in the preoperative period, during the surgery, and often through postoperative period.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Amit Lehavi & Yeshayahu Katz

  2. Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Israel Institute of Technology, 9602, Haifa, 31096, Israel

    Amit Lehavi, Yaron Bar-Lavie & Yeshayahu Katz

  3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel

    Yaron Bar-Lavie

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Lehavi, A., Bar-Lavie, Y., Katz, Y. (2011). Anesthesia and Intensive Care of the Patient with Severe Extremity Trauma. In: Lerner, A., Soudry, M. (eds) Armed Conflict Injuries to the Extremities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16155-1_5

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