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Nitrogen diffusion into closed anesthesia systems

Thomas Marx1, Helmuth Reinelt, Kerstin Plotzki

  • 1Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany. thomas.marx@medizin.uni-ulm.de

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
|June 17, 2005
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