ANNALS OF MEDICINE about the use of checklists in hospital intensive-care units (I.C.U.s). Writer describes the revival of a three-year-old girl by a team of intensive-care specialists at a hospital in Austria. The girl had been under the surface of an icy pond for thirty minutes…
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