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Emergency department sedation guidelines: a tale of two specialties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Grant Innes*
Affiliation:
St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC; CJEM

Abstract

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Type
Editorial • Éditorial
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 1999

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