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Is out-of-hospital intubation by paramedics valid enough to be continued?

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Kasugai Municipal Hospital, 1-1-1 Takaki, Kasugai, Aichi, 486-8510, Japan

    Maki Morita, Toshimichi Takahashi, Toshiki Kondo, Takahiro Ando & Satoshi Kimura

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An answer to this letter to the editor is available at doi:10.1007/s00540-011-1139-y.

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Morita, M., Takahashi, T., Kondo, T. et al. Is out-of-hospital intubation by paramedics valid enough to be continued?. J Anesth 25, 467–468 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-011-1138-z

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