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01-02-2017 | Correspondence

CPR and brain death: confounders, clearance, caution

Author: Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 2/2017

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Title: CPR and brain death: confounders, clearance, caution
Author: Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Publication date: 01-02-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4625-8

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