End-tidal CO2 and plasma lactate level: a comparison of their use as parameters for evaluating successful CPR

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Published on: January 29, 2011

S Sato1, T Kimura, N Okubo

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan.

Resuscitation
|October 1, 1993
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