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Laboratory investigation into optimal temperature for plaster of Paris application

Sheree M Conroy1, David Ward, John Fraser

  • 1Department of Emergency Medicine, Toowoomba Base Hospital, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. sheree_conroy@health.qld.gov.au

Emergency Medicine Australasia : EMA
|July 28, 2007
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