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Serious Traffic Accident in Fog

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In emergency medicine, one often encounters situations that do not develop as expected and therefore require improvisational skills. The good or bad environmental conditions also play a corresponding role. In this case, the situation of a triage at the accident site after a traffic accident is presented and some possible difficulties that the deployment team may encounter in this constellation.

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Messelken, M. (2023). Serious Traffic Accident in Fog. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_3

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