Techniques in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 163-170 , October 2008

Regional anesthesia and patient outcomes: evidence-based medicine

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 Financial support: No external funding was provided. Supported by the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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doi: 10.1053/j.trap.2008.09.002

Techniques in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Management
Volume 12, Issue 4 , Pages 163-170 , October 2008

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