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Critical care medicine as a subspecialty of emergency medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Patrick Melanson
Patrick Melanson*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine and Division of Critical Care Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Que
*
McGill University Health Centre, 687 Pine Ave. W, Montreal QC H3A 1A1; 514 843–2852, fax 514 843–1638, PMelan4966@aol.com

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Type
Controversies • Controverses
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 2000 , pp. 258 - 261
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2000

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