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. 2018 May;10(5):3081-3087.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.04.113.

Mechanism of death: there's more to it than sudden cardiac arrest

David C Parish  1 , Hemant Goyal  1 , Francis C Dane  2
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Mechanism of death: there's more to it than sudden cardiac arrest

David C Parish et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 May.
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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Sequence of organ failure in clinical death. CNS, central south university; VF, ventricular fibrillation.
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