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Place of cervical collar in emergency medicine
Affiliations- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Grodno State Medical University, Grodno, Belarus
- Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland
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Place of cervical collar in emergency medicine
Journal
Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal
Issue
Article type
Letter to the Editor
Pages
108-109
Published online
2018-09-30
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Disaster Emerg Med J 2018;3(3):108-109.
Authors
Ruslan Yakubtsevich
Dominika Dunder
Kacper Kranc
Michal Pruc
Adam Pastucha
Aleksandra Koldyj
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