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Chapter 13 - Exertional Heat Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

By
Brian Springer
Edited by
Anna L. Waterbrook
Anna L. Waterbrook
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
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Sports Medicine for the Emergency Physician
A Practical Handbook
, pp. 390 - 407
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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