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Education and Practice

Assessment of Paramedic Performance on Difficult Airway Simulation

, MD, PhD, , BS , EMT-B, , MEd & , MD
Pages 411-420 | Received 03 Jun 2015, Accepted 10 Sep 2015, Published online: 21 Nov 2016

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