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. 2005 Jan;22(1):22–24. doi: 10.1136/emj.2003.012963

Emergency thoracotomy: "how to do it"

D Wise 1, G Davies 1, T Coats 1, D Lockey 1, J Hyde 1, A Good 1
PMCID: PMC1726527  PMID: 15611536

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