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Bench to Bedside to Bystanders – Moving Antidotes and Management Guidelines Out of the Hospital and Into the Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2018

Vikhyat S. Bebarta
Vikhyat S. Bebarta*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology and Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Vikhyat S. Bebarta, USAF Reserve IMA, Office of the Chief Scientist, 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas 78233-9908 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , June 2019 , pp. 397 - 399
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Copyright © 2018 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 

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