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The Need for a Prehospital DNR System Withholding CPR in the Prehospital Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Frank W. Lavoie
Frank W. Lavoie
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of LouisvilleSchool of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 73
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1991

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