Postoperative pneumonia: Can this important complication be predicted and anticipated?

Bernhard Walder1, David A Story

  • 1From the Peri-interventional Care Unit, Division of Anaesthesiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland (BW) and Centre for Integrated Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (DAS).

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