Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages vii-viii , June 2010

A physiologically oriented approach to the perioperative period: the role of the anaesthesiologist

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2010.03.001

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages vii-viii , June 2010

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