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The agony of agonal respiration: is the last gasp necessary?
- Correspondence to: R M Perkin, Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, 3E-142 Brody Medical Sciences Building, Greenville, NC 27858–4354, USA; perkinr{at}mail.ecu.edu
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The agony of agonal respiration: is the last gasp necessary?
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- Accepted January 2, 2002
- Revised January 2, 2002
- First published June 1, 2002.
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April 27, 2016
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Copyright 2002 by the Journal of Medical Ethics
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