Book chapter
The Pediatric Patient
Penetrating Trauma, pp.557-563
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
09/01/2016
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_73
Abstract
The landscape of penetrating pediatric injury will vary depending on the community in which you practice surgery. In developing countries especially those characterized by civil strife and political change in areas such as Central Africa and the Middle East, children get caught up in the vortex of violence and are injured by bullets and shrapnel from explosives and blasts. The pattern of injury in these groups may be similar to the injuries seen in adult victims but are often much more severe due to the greater injuring capacity of weapons on such small bodies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Pediatric Patient
- Creators
- Graeme Pitcher - Department of Surgery, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Penetrating Trauma, pp.557-563
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-662-49859-0_73
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Berlin, Heidelberg
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Surgery; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984322886302771
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