Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 183-197 , June 2010

Prevention and reversal of lung collapse during the intra-operative period

  • Gerardo Tusman, MD (Staff Member)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Hospital Privado de Comunidad, Mar del Plata, Argentina
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +54 223 4990074; Fax: +54 223 4990099.
    • ,
  • Stephan H. Böhm, MD (Medical Director)

      Affiliations

    • CSEM Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Research Centre for Nanomedicine, Landquart, Switzerland

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2010.02.006

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 183-197 , June 2010

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