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Pediatric Trauma in Earthquakes: General Principles of Care in Pediatric Trauma During Earthquakes

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As one of the medical science disciplines, the treatment of severe injuries has grown fast for the last 50 years. The main trigger for this discipline came from the wars, especially World War II, as well as local military conflicts of the twentieth century, the time, when the main principles of sorting and administering of the medical aid for the injured during mass destruction were established [1].

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  1. Department of Combined Trauma and Resuscitation in Clinical and Research, Institute of Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma, Bolshaya Polyanka Str 22, Moscow, 119180, Russia

    Olga Karaseva MD, PhD, Dr Sc. (med)

  2. President of Clinical and Research Institute of Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma, Bolshaya Polyanka Str 22, Moscow, 119180, Russia

    Leonid M. Roshal MD, PhD, Dr.Sc (med)

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  1. Olga Karaseva MD, PhD, Dr Sc. (med)
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Correspondence to Olga Karaseva MD, PhD, Dr Sc. (med) .

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  1. Department of Orthopedics, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

    Nikolaj Wolfson

  2. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Bar Ilan Univ, Ziv Medical Ctr, Zefat, Israel

    Alexander Lerner

  3. Urgent Pediatric Surgery and Trauma, Clinical and Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

    Leonid Roshal

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Karaseva, O., Roshal, L.M. (2016). Pediatric Trauma in Earthquakes: General Principles of Care in Pediatric Trauma During Earthquakes. In: Wolfson, N., Lerner, A., Roshal, L. (eds) Orthopedics in Disasters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48950-5_36

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