Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 439-455 , September 2006

How perioperative fluid balance influences postoperative outcomes

  • Dileep N. Lobo, DM, FRCS (Senior Lecturer in Gastrointestinal Surgery/Consultant Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgeon)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 115 8231149; Fax: +44 115 8231160.
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  • David A.L. Macafee, DM, MRCS (Specialist Registrar in Surgery)
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  • Simon P. Allison, MD, FRCP (Professor of Clinical Nutrition)

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Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 439-455 , September 2006

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