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Published on: February 26, 2013

Diagnostic dilemma: Unexpected pressure waveform during pulmonary artery catheter placement: what is the dilemma?

Deepak K Tempe, Sanjay Goel

    Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
    |October 28, 2003
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