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Blood: The Ultimate Donation in Emergencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Claude de Ville de Goyet*
Affiliation:
Consultant, Retired Director of the Emergency Preparedness Program of the Pan- American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization

Abstract

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Type
Editorial Comments
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2008

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