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Resuscitation of an Elderly Patient

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What to do when death has already occurred, but then life suddenly shows up where none should have been anymore? This case shows that there are phenomena in medicine that cannot be sufficiently explained by scientific approaches and research.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine, and Pain Therapy, Friedrichshafen Regional Medical Center and Tettnang Hospital, Friedrichshafen, Germany

    Volker Wenzel

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Wenzel, V. (2023). Resuscitation of an Elderly Patient. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_26

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