Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 11 , Pages 1596-1597 , November 2010

Upper airway obstruction due to spontaneous retropharyngeal hemorrhage

  • Siu-On Tsui

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Shu-Fang Hu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • ,
  • Li-Chu Fang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • ,
  • Chih-Cheng Lai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 2 22193391; fax: +886 2 22191361.
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  • Hen-I. Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Cardinal Tien Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 8 June 2010

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PII: S0300-9572(10)00355-2

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.06.009

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 11 , Pages 1596-1597 , November 2010