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Review Article| Volume 38, P209-227, December 2020

Emergency Anesthesia in Resource-Limited Areas

  • Seung Lee
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    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans Street, 6222 Charlotte R. Bloomberg, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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  • Azuka Onye
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    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans Street, 9137 Sheikh Zayed Building, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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  • Asad Latif
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    Corresponding author.
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    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 600 North Wolfe Street, Meyer 297A, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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