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Training Novice Users in Bag-Valve-Mask Technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Adrian A. Matioc*
Affiliation:
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Medical Center, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
*
VA Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, 2500 Overlook Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Type
Letter to Editor
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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