Illescas FGJ

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The most commonly used worldwide trauma severity indexes and scores are reviewed in this work, for prehospital and emergency room medical personnel to know and apply them, in order to homogenize evaluation elements unify trauma language, which will allow to further increasing experience exchange.

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