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Expired CO2 Measurement in Intubated or Spontaneously Breathing Patients from the Emergency Department
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Published on: January 30, 2011

Thermometric estimation of carbon dioxide output in the anesthetized patient

S Ramanathan, J Chalon

    Anesthesia and Analgesia
    |March 1, 1975
    PubMed

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