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01-08-2013 | Original Article

SICOT contribution to natural disaster assistance: the triage

Author: Maurice Hinsenkamp

Published in: International Orthopaedics | Issue 8/2013

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After the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, SICOT began collaborating with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to allow volunteer orthopaedic surgeons to participate in humanitarian missions following a natural disaster [1]. …

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Title: SICOT contribution to natural disaster assistance: the triage
Author: Maurice Hinsenkamp
Publication date: 01-08-2013
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: International Orthopaedics / Issue 8/2013
Print ISSN: 0341-2695
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-013-1987-1

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