Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 242-250 , August 2008

From hope and expectation to unexpected death after cardiac surgery

,Accepted 17 February 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.02.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 242-250 , August 2008

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