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Severe accidental hypothermia: The need for prolonged aggressive resuscitative efforts

Raghavendra G. Kulkarni Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Stephen H. Thomas Boston Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsCorrespondence<[email protected]>
Pages 254-259 | Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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