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Chapter 6 - Management of the Third Stage of Labor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2018

Shad Deering
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Kelsey J. Simpson  and
Shad Deering
Shad Deering
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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Maryland
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A Practical Manual to Labor and Delivery , pp. 87 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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