Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 27 No. (1-2), 1995.
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Wartime pediatric surgery
I Fattorini
K Tomić
T Vlahović
Z Bahtijarević
Z Barčot
A Kljenak
Abstract
The article presents the history and the development of pediatric surgery in Croatia and its adjustment to the war circumstances. Among other victims of the war, there were 256 killed and 957 injured children. Almost one half of them were injured and killed by artillery atacks and nearly one third of them suffered from gunshot wounds. Croatian pediatric surgeons took major part in taking care of those children. Beside working in their own hospitals, pediatric surgeons of Croatia took part in mobile surgical teams, providing help to hospitals on or near the battlefields in the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Under those circumstances they have acted as general war surgeons. In spite of the war, Croatian pediatric surgery has maintained the high level of elective surgery. In 1994 Croatian Society of Pediatric Surgeons managed to become a member of the EUPSA (European Union of Pediatric Surgeons Associations).
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Hrčak ID:
192870
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1995.
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