Management of Severe Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity Following Hypoxic Brain Injury.
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Address for Correspondence: Dr. Eren Fatma Akçıl, İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye Phone: +90 212 414 30 00-21248 E-mail: [email protected] ©Copyright 2015 by Turkish Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Society Available online at www.jtaics.org Received : 09.10.2014 Accepted : 17.11.2014 Eren Fatma Akçıl, Özlem Korkmaz Dilmen, Yusuf Tunalı Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey Le tte r t o th e Ed ito r
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation
دوره 43 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015