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Medico-economic Evaluation of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Patient Management

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Geri, G. (2018). Medico-economic Evaluation of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Patient Management. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2018. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73670-9_14

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