Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 82-89 , June 2009

Capnographic Monitoring in Respiratory Emergencies

  • Joshua Nagler, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Joshua Nagler, MD, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
    • ,
  • Baruch Krauss, MD, EdM

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doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2009.03.004

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 82-89 , June 2009

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