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Peripheral central venous pressure in the external jugular vein: can we trust it?
Fulvio Nisi1, Giorgio Picardo1, Ernico Giustiniano1
1IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Anaesthesia
|July 21, 2025
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