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Chapter 9 - Trauma and Musculoskeletal System Dysfunction in the Critically Ill Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2018

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Felix Y. Lui  and
Kimberly A. Davis
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Shamsuddin Akhtar  and
Stanley Rosenbaum
Shamsuddin Akhtar
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Yale University School of Medicine
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Principles of Geriatric Critical Care , pp. 126 - 137
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Print publication year: 2018

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