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Vol 2, No 2 (2017)
Letter to the Editor
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Do emergency services focus enough on pre-hospital hypothermia management?
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Vol 2, No 2 (2017)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published online: 2017-05-24
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Do emergency services focus enough on pre-hospital hypothermia management?
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Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal
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Letter to the Editor
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100-101
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2017-05-24
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Disaster Emerg Med J 2017;2(2):100-101.
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Kobi Ludwin
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