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Prehospital Implementation Of The Canadian C-Spine Rule

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Christopher R. Foerster
Christopher R. Foerster*
Affiliation:
Primary Care Paramedic, Lambton EMS, Lambton County, ON

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Type
Letters • Correspondance
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 10
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2014

References

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