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Fluid Resuscitation of Hypovolemic Shock: Acute Medicine's Great Triumph for Children

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    Joseph A. Carcillo

  2. Department of Paediatrics, Cambridge University Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK

    Robert C. Tasker

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Carcillo, J.A., Tasker, R.C. Fluid Resuscitation of Hypovolemic Shock: Acute Medicine's Great Triumph for Children. Intensive Care Med 32, 958–961 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0189-3

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