Preventing surgical deaths: critical care and intensive care outreach services in the postoperative period
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Postoperative critical care: overnight intensive recovery.
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeh281