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The Trauma Team Concept

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This chapter presents the importance of having high-quality trauma teams and gives guidance on how to manage safe secondary transfers.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

    Christina Rosenlund

  2. Department of Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

    Rico Frederik Schou

  3. Section of Neuroanesthesia and Neurointensive Care, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

    Rico Frederik Schou

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

    Terje Sundstrøm

  2. Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

    Per-Olof Grände

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

    Teemu Luoto

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

    Christina Rosenlund

  5. Department of Operation and Intensive Care, Halmstad Hospital, Halmstad, Sweden

    Johan Undén

  6. Department of Clinical Medicine K1, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Knut Gustav Wester

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Rosenlund, C., Schou, R.F. (2020). The Trauma Team Concept. In: Sundstrøm, T., Grände, PO., Luoto, T., Rosenlund, C., Undén, J., Wester, K. (eds) Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39383-0_12

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