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

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  1. Department of Emergency Medical Science, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-8-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Japan

    Yutaka Takei, Miki Enami, Keisuke Ohta & Hideo Inaba

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This author’s reply refers to the letter to the editor at doi:10.1007/s00540-011-1138-z.

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Takei, Y., Enami, M., Ohta, K. et al. In reply: Is out-of-hospital intubation by paramedics valid enough to be continued?. J Anesth 25, 469–470 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-011-1139-y

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