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Airway management: “the times they are a-changin”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

George Kovacs*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
*
Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousive University, 1666 Edward Street, Halifax, NS B3H 3J3; [email protected]

Abstract

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Type
Editorial • Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2013

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