Hands-on defibrillation: "Gloves as sweet as damask roses" (William Shakespeare: The winter's tale)

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA. Electronic address: richard-kerber@uiowa.edu.

Editorial

Richard E Kerber. Resuscitation. 2015 May.

. 2015 May:90:A6-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.02.029. Epub 2015 Mar 9.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA. Electronic address: richard-kerber@uiowa.edu.

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