Caring for obese obstetric patients

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 13-26

  Weiss, Joshua L ^a   Malone, Fergal D ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

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