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Chapter 20 - Airway management in cervical spine injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

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Jaime Daly  and
Keith J. Ruskin
Edited by
Lauren C. Berkow  and
John C. Sakles
Lauren C. Berkow
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
John C. Sakles
Affiliation:
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Cases in Emergency Airway Management , pp. 149 - 156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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