Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 267-281 , June 2010

Influence of non-ventilatory options on postoperative outcome

  • Daniel Chappell, MD (Staff Anaesthesiologist)

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  • Matthias Jacob, MD (Associate Professor)

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☆ The work should be attributed to: Clinic of Anesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.

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