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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, c/o 31 McCullum Street, Mtunzini, 3867, South Africa

    Ignatius Le Roux Postma MBChB, MPhil (EM), DipPec (SA)

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Postma, I.L.R. (2016). Trauma in Pregnancy. In: David, S. (eds) Clinical Pathways in Emergency Medicine. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2713-7_41

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