Operating Room Fires: A Closed Claims Analysis

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  2013

• Venue

  Anesthesiology

• Publication date

  2013-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31828afa7bPMID 23422795
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