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Ketamine added to intravenous patient-controlled morphine: ketamine plasma concentration is unreliable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2004

A. C. Van Elstraete
Affiliation:
Clinique Saint Paul, Martinique, French West Indies
T. Lebrun
Affiliation:
Clinique Saint Paul, Martinique, French West Indies
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2004 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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