Sudden death during restraint: Do some positions affect lung function?

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-141

  Parkes, John ^a   Carson, Ray ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992815711     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.48.2.137     Document Type: Article

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