Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 1-9 , March 2006

The sinking brain: How to measure consciousness in anaesthesia

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2005.10.005

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 1-9 , March 2006

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