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Intrathoracic blood volume in a patient with pulmonary embolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2005

S. G. Sakka
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Jena, Germany
A. Meier-Hellmann
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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© 2003 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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