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Multiple injuries may occur in one individual or present as mass casualties, i.e., a large number of individuals who have suffered one or more injuries. In the latter case triage of the wounded precedes the actual treatment of each individual (see chapter on mass casualties and triage).
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Reis, N.D. (1989). Multiple Injuries. In: Reis, N.D., Dolev, E. (eds) Manual of Disaster Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83440-0_25
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