Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 10 , Pages 1192-1196 , October 2009

The European Trauma Course (ETC) and the team approach: Past, present and future

Received 14 February 2009 ,Revised 14 June 2009 ,Accepted 21 June 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.06.023.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.06.023

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