Prognosticating With Left Ventricular Global Longitudinal Strain: A New Opportunity for Cardiac Anesthesiologists
Nicolas Kumar1, Manoj H Iyer2, Julia Kumar3
1Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|March 29, 2023
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