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Continuous Manual Exchange Transfusion for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: An Efficient Method to Avoid Iron Overload
Published on: March 14, 2017
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Novel method of securing 15 mm endotracheal tube adapter to avoid unnecessary tube exchange
Mario DeAngelis1, Christopher Ryan Hoffman2, Kevin Russo1
1Drexel University College of Medicine, Hahnemann University Hospital, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America.
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
|August 11, 2018
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