Abstract
In August 2008, an article was published in Heart entitled, “The Routine Use of Oxygen in the Treatment of Myocardial Infarction.”1 This article stimulated me to opine on this topic, which has been an interest of mine for many years. Copyright © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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