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A new cardiopulmonary bypass circuit with reduced foreign surface (CorX™): initial clinical experience and implications for anaesthesia management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2005

B. Bein
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
D. Caliebe
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
J. Scholz
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
M. Steinfath
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
P. H. Tonner
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
A. Boening
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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© 2004 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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