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Chapter 3 - ECT Technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2018

Charles H. Kellner
Charles H. Kellner
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New York Community Hospital
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Handbook of ECT
A Guide to Electroconvulsive Therapy for Practitioners
 , pp. 49 - 86
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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