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Emilia Guasch1, Nicolas Brogly, Frederic J Mercier

  • 1From the Servicio de Anestesia y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain (EG, NB), Département d'Anesthésie, Hôpital Antoine Béclère (Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud, AP-HP), Paris, France (FJM), Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University (AI), Department of Obstetrics and Ambulatory Anesthesia, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel (AI), Division of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (CFW), Labour Ward, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK (NL), Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hospices Civils de Lyon/University of Lyon 1, Lyon, France (DC), Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany (PK), Department of Anaesthesiology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK (DW), Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin und Schmerztherapie, Klinikum Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany (GG), Department of Clinical Skills and Medical Technology Academic Staff (OS), Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (OS), Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia; Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, P.Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia (OS), Division of Anaesthesiology, Analgesia, and Intensive Care, Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences (EdR) and Training Program in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy (EdR).

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