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¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
³ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan City, Yilan County, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, dr_mck@yahoo.com.tw.

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Chun-Yu Chang et al. Anesth Analg. 2021.

. 2021 Aug 1;133(2):e27-e29.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005627.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
³ Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan City, Yilan County, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, dr_mck@yahoo.com.tw.

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