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A review of traumatic airway injuries: Potential implications for airway assessment and management

,Accepted 4 September 2006.

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☆ This paper was presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Trauma Association of Canada, March 23–25, 2006, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

PII: S0020-1383(06)00579-1

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.09.002

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