Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 62-64 , January 2001

“A” is for airway … Also for action

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☆ Reprints not available from the authors. Address for correspondence: Theodore R. Delbridge, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine CL-13, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15220; 412-647-1107, fax 412-647-5053; E-mail delbridget@msx.upmc.edu.

PII: S0196-0644(01)17262-8

doi: 10.1067/mem.2001.112945

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 62-64 , January 2001

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