Air Medical Journal
Volume 29, Issue 2 , Pages 58-61 , March 2010

Thoracic Spine Injury after a High-Speed Motor Vehicle Crash

  • Peter Tilney, DO, EMT-P

      Affiliations

    • Peter Tilney, DO, EMT-P, is a resident physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Albany Medical Center in Albany, NY, and associate medical director of LifeNet of New York.

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PII: S1067-991X(09)00372-1

doi: 10.1016/j.amj.2009.12.003

Air Medical Journal
Volume 29, Issue 2 , Pages 58-61 , March 2010

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