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Chapter 6 - Regional anesthesia for ambulatory surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

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Ramprasad Sripada ,
Shuchita Garg  and
Johan Raeder
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Johan Raeder  and
Richard D. Urman
Johan Raeder
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Universitetet i Oslo
Richard D. Urman
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Harvard Medical School
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Practical Ambulatory Anesthesia , pp. 61 - 78
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