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Fall into Icy Water

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In addition to the questions of injury, the mechanism that caused the accident is also important in order to be able to treat not only the symptom but also the cause. Sometimes the injury and mechanism are completely evident, sometimes you have to ask persistently- as in this case.

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Schnitzer, L. (2023). Fall into Icy Water. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_13

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