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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Dianne Groll*
Affiliation:
ICU Research, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ont.

Abstract

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Type
Letters • Courrier
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2002

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