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Emergency Neurological Life Support: Approach to the Patient with Coma

Rhonda S Cadena1, Aarti Sarwal2

  • 1Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. rhonda.cadena@unc.edu.

Neurocritical Care
|September 16, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
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