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Acid–base management during hypothermic neuroprotection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2005

Donald C. Whitaker
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK
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2003 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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