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Military Medicine

Multicenter, Prospective Study of Prehospital Administration of Analgesia in the U.S. Combat Theater of Afghanistan

Steven G. SchauerCorrespondence[email protected]
ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-2322-5216
, DO ORCID Icon,
Alejandra G. Mora
, BS,
Joseph K. Maddry
, MD &
Vikhyat S. Bebarta
, MD
Pages 744-749 | Received 29 Jul 2016, Accepted 16 May 2017, Published online: 22 Aug 2017

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