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  • 1From the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne; Department of Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Academic Board of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Fu Wai Cardiovascular Hospital, CAMS, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China; Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom; Nueva Granada Military University, Bogota; Department of Anaesthesia, Resuscitation and Pain Management, Central Military Hospital, Bogota, Colombia; Department of Anesthesiology, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario; Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth; Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Perth, Australia; Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, British Columbia; Department of Anesthesiology, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia; Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of Anaesthesia, Department of Surgery, Austin Hospital and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom; and Department of Anesthesia, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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