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25 - Emergency Surgical Airway

from Section 4 - The Unanticipated Difficult Airway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2017

D. John Doyle
Affiliation:
Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi
Basem Abdelmalak
Affiliation:
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
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Clinical Airway Management
An Illustrated Case-Based Approach
, pp. 135 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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