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[Experience in employing pulse CO-Oximetry]

Tatsuya Nagano1, Ken Iseki, Takao Niki

  • 1Department of Emergency & Critical Care Medicine, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Yamagata 990-9585.

Masui. the Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology
|June 4, 2008
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