Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 59-61 , January 2001

Defibrillation waveforms

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☆ Reprints not available from the author. Address for correspondence: James T. Niemann, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509; 310-222-3500, fax 310-782-1763; E-mail jniemann@emedharbor.edu.

PII: S0196-0644(01)02234-X

doi: 10.1067/mem.2001.112886

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 59-61 , January 2001

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