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Editorial
. 2021 May;76(5):598-601.
doi: 10.1111/anae.15213. Epub 2020 Jul 23.

Procedural sedation: providing the missing definition

S M Green  1 , M G Irwin  2 , K P Mason  3 ; International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation
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Editorial

Procedural sedation: providing the missing definition

S M Green et al. Anaesthesia. 2021 May.
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Keywords: consensus; definition; procedural sedation.

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