Macrocirculation and Microcirculation: The "Batman and Superman" Story of Critical Care Resuscitation
Ashish K Khanna1,2, Kunal Karamchandani3
1From the Department of Anesthesiology, Section on Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Health Network, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|November 12, 2020
Abstract
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