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A Novel Rescue Technique for Difficult Intubation and Difficult Ventilation

Published on: January 18, 2011

Appropriate suction device in rescue medicine

B E Dahlgren1, H Nilsson, P Bjorn

  • 1Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital, Linköping University, Sweden.

Annals of Emergency Medicine
|December 1, 1987
PubMed

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