Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 231-236 , June 2006

Evidence-based preoperative evaluation

  • Maurizio Solca, MD (Head, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine)

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2005.10.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 231-236 , June 2006

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