Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 299-316 , June 2008

Arginine vasopressin: a promising rescue drug in the treatment of uncontrolled haemorrhagic shock

  • Martin W. Dünser, MD (Doctor)

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☆ Supported in part by the Science Foundation of the Austrian National Bank grant 11448, Vienna, Austria.

PII: S1521-6896(08)00005-0

doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2008.02.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 299-316 , June 2008

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