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Marc Van de Velde1

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. marc.vandevelde@uz.kuleuven.ac.be

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology
|March 15, 2006
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