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Blood: The Ultimate Donation in Emergencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Claude de Ville de Goyet
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
*
cdevill@attglobal.net
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 395 - 396
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2008

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