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Public access defibrillation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Christian Vaillancourt
Christian Vaillancourt*
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital, – Civic Campus, Ottawa, Ont

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Type
Letters • Courrier
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 3
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2002

References

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