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February 2015, Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The German field hospital is running normally, it is a quiet time with few attacks or fighting and there are no patients in intensive care, when a request for help is made from the civilian to the military leadership. The team of the field hospital then takes over treatment of a small girl with a severe head injury, for which nothing could be done in the local Afghan hospital. For over 6 weeks, the interdisciplinary medical team works together with specialists at home to fight its way back to life—the story of Farzana.

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  1. Federal Armed Forces Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, Ulm, Germany

    Sylvi Thierbach

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  1. Klinik für Anästhesie, Medizin Campus Bodensee, Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Volker Wenzel

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Thierbach, S. (2023). Quiet Voice. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_55

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