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Recording Brain Electromagnetic Activity During the Administration of the Gaseous Anesthetic Agents Xenon and Nitrous Oxide in Healthy Volunteers
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Drug recognition by nurses and anaesthetists

G D Smellie, N W Lees, E M Smith

    Anaesthesia
    |February 1, 1982
    PubMed

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