Resuscitation
Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 129-136 , February 2004

Do textbooks of clinical examination contain information regarding the assessment of critically ill patients?

  • Caroline J Cook

      Affiliations

    • Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK
    • ,
  • Gary B Smith

      Affiliations

    • Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Queen Alexandra Hospital and School of Postgraduate Medicine, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO6 3LY, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44-23-92286844; fax: +44-23-92286967.

Received 8 July 2003 ,Revised 20 August 2003 ,Accepted 22 September 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.09.009

Resuscitation
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