Prehospital endotracheal intubation: elemental or detrimental?
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This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015