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Fatal Heat Block and Cardiac Arrest Following Ect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. L. Barton
J. L. Barton*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, The General Infirmary at Leeds, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds 2
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 556 , March 1972 , pp. 355
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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