Critical care nurses' role in implementing the "ABCDE bundle" into practice

Michele C Balas1, Eduard E Vasilevskis, William J Burke

  • 1University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Nursing, Omaha 68198-5330, USA. mbalas@unmc.edu

Critical Care Nurse
|April 3, 2012
PubMed

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