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Environmental emergencies: Burns, major trauma and near drowning

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  1. Pediatric Division of Victoria Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario, 800 Commissioners Road East, London, Ontario, Canada

    Niranjan Kissoon & Dharmapuri Vidyasagar

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

    Niranjan Kissoon & Dharmapuri Vidyasagar

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Kissoon, N., Vidyasagar, D. Environmental emergencies: Burns, major trauma and near drowning. Indian J Pediatr 58, 321–328 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02754959

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