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Critical care service in Saudi Arabia

Awad Al-Omari, Hesham S. Abdelwahed and Mariam A. Alansari
Saudi Medical Journal June 2015, 36 (6) 759-761; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.6.11204
Awad Al-Omari
From the Department of Critical Care (Al-Omari, Abdelwahed), Security Forces Hospital, Department of Medicine (Al-Omari), Alfaisal University, and from the Department of Adult Critical Care Medicine (Alansari), King Khalid University Hospital, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Hesham S. Abdelwahed
From the Department of Critical Care (Al-Omari, Abdelwahed), Security Forces Hospital, Department of Medicine (Al-Omari), Alfaisal University, and from the Department of Adult Critical Care Medicine (Alansari), King Khalid University Hospital, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mariam A. Alansari
From the Department of Critical Care (Al-Omari, Abdelwahed), Security Forces Hospital, Department of Medicine (Al-Omari), Alfaisal University, and from the Department of Adult Critical Care Medicine (Alansari), King Khalid University Hospital, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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