Inserting peripheral intravenous cannulae - Tips and tricks

Update in Anaesthesia

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-26

  Harty, Eoin ^a  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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