Intensive Care Medicine: Annual Update 2004 - hardcover

EAN (ISBN-13): 9780387207537
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0387207538
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Publishing year: 2004
Publisher: Springer

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ISBN/EAN: 9780387207537

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0-387-20753-8, 978-0-387-20753-7
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Book author: jean little, vincent jean louis
Book title: intensive care medicine annual update

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Author: Jean-Louis Vincent
Title: Intensive Care Medicine - Annual Update 2004
Publisher: Springer; Springer US
915 Pages
Publishing year: 2004-07-27
New York; NY; US
Weight: 0,001 kg
Language: English
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XXVIII, 915 p. 194 illus.

BB; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine; Hardcover, Softcover / Medizin/Klinische Fächer; Intensivmedizin; Emergency Medicine; Internal Medicine; Intensive Care Medicine; Emergency Medicine; Internal Medicine; Notfallmedizin; Klinische und Innere Medizin

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