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The respir-aid rocking bed in poliomyelitis

J WRIGHT

    The American Journal of Nursing
    |March 19, 2010
    PubMed
    Abstract

    No abstract available in PubMed .

    Keywords:
    POLIOMYELITIS/therapy

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