Resuscitation
Volume 72, Issue 1 , Pages 158-160 , January 2007

A fishy cause of sudden near fatal hypotension

Received 28 October 2005 ,Revised 10 May 2006 ,Accepted 30 May 2006.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.05.021.

PII: S0300-9572(06)00316-9

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.05.021

Resuscitation
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