The 2009 Samoan Tsunami – the Victorian disaster medical assistance team deployment

Abstract

The included images are chosen from the collected works of official war artists from Australia and New Zealand to show depictions of surgery. During times of conflict, surgeons have played and continue to play a vital role in the lives of servicemen and women. War artists give us an insight into the surgeon's life during war and illustrate many of the particular challenges war brings. References

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“…The discrepancy is well explained by the fact that both Swift and EXIST are more sensitive to long-soft burstscharacteristic of high redshift LGRBs -due to their lower gamma-ray trigger energy window, compared to BATSE Large Area Detectors (c.f. Gehrels et al 2004;Band et al 2008;Grindlay & Team 2009).…”

What Are the Research Needs for the Field of Disaster Nursing? An International Delphi Study

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