Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 59-64 , March 2007

Heat-Related Illness

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doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2007.02.006

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 59-64 , March 2007

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