Resuscitation
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 221-224 , February 2002

Use of the laryngeal tube for out-of-hospital resuscitation

Received 10 August 2001 ,Revised 25 September 2001 ,Accepted 25 September 2001.

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Resuscitation
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