Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 255-265 , December 2011

Pediatric Advanced Life Support Update for the Emergency Physician: Review of 2010 Guideline Changes

  • Waseem Hafeez, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Waseem Hafeez, MD, is to be contacted at Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3315 Rochambeau Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467. Lorraine Ronca, DO, Theresa Maldonado, MD.
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  • Lorraine T. Ronca, DO

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Waseem Hafeez, MD, is to be contacted at Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3315 Rochambeau Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467. Lorraine Ronca, DO, Theresa Maldonado, MD.
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  • Theresa E. Maldonado, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Waseem Hafeez, MD, is to be contacted at Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 3315 Rochambeau Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467. Lorraine Ronca, DO, Theresa Maldonado, MD.

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☆ The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2011.09.007

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 255-265 , December 2011

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