Prehospital and disaster medicine
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Prehosp Disaster Med · Apr 1999
Effects of early prehospital life support to war injured: the battle of Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
To study the effects of early, advanced prehospital life support on the survival rate of war casualties during the battle of Jalalabad, Afghanistan from 1989-1992. ⋯ In scenarios with protracted evacuation, early and advanced trauma care should be included in the chain of survival. Local paramedics can provide such trauma care with a minimum of resources.