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Comment
. 2020 May:55:102770.
doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2020.102770. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

Sedating ventilated COVID-19 patients with inhalational anesthetic drugs

Beverley A Orser  1 , Dian-Shi Wang  2 , Wei-Yang Lu  3
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Sedating ventilated COVID-19 patients with inhalational anesthetic drugs

Beverley A Orser et al. EBioMedicine. 2020 May.
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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest B.A.O. is an inventor named on a Canadian patent (2852978), a US patent (9517265), and a pending US patent (62/268,137). D.S.W. and W.Y.L have no competing interests.

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