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. 2022 Jan;77(1):114-115.
doi: 10.1111/anae.15575. Epub 2021 Aug 25.

Procedural sedation: a flawed definition for a problematic term

N Chrimes  1 , C Hagberg  2
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Procedural sedation: a flawed definition for a problematic term

N Chrimes et al. Anaesthesia. 2022 Jan.
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  • Procedural sedation: providing the missing definition.
    Green SM, Irwin MG, Mason KP; International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation. Green SM, et al. Anaesthesia. 2021 May;76(5):598-601. doi: 10.1111/anae.15213. Epub 2020 Jul 23. Anaesthesia. 2021. PMID: 32701166 No abstract available.

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