Burns
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 464-466 , August 2004

Is supra-Baxter resuscitation in burn patients a new phenomenon?

  • Jeffrey B Friedrich

      Affiliations

    • Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Mailstop 359796, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
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  • Stephen R Sullivan

      Affiliations

    • Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Mailstop 359796, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
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  • Loren H Engrav

      Affiliations

    • Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Mailstop 359796, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-206-731-3209; fax: +1-206-731-3656.
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  • Kurt A Round

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacy, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Carolyn B Blayney

      Affiliations

    • Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Gretchen J Carrougher

      Affiliations

    • Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Mailstop 359796, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
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  • David M Heimbach

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Shari Honari

      Affiliations

    • Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Matthew B Klein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Nicole S Gibran

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

,Accepted 21 January 2004.

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PII: S0305-4179(04)00038-5

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.01.021

Burns
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 464-466 , August 2004

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