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. 2022 May;66(5):319-343.
doi: 10.4103/ija.ija_335_22. Epub 2022 May 19.

Preoperative Investigations: Practice Guidelines from the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists

Goneppanavar Umesh  1 , S Bala Bhaskar  2 , S S Harsoor  3 , Pradeep A Dongare  4 , Rakesh Garg  5 , Sudheesh Kannan  6 , Zulfiqar Ali  7 , Abhijit Nair  8 , Anjali Rakesh Bhure  9 , Anju Grewal  10 , Baljit Singh  11 , Durga Prasad Rao  12 , Jigeeshu Vasishtha Divatia  13 , Mahesh Sinha  14 , Manoj Kumar  15 , Muralidhar Joshi  16 , Naman Shastri  17 , Naveen Malhotra  18 , Priyam Saikia  19 , M C Rajesh  20 , Sabyasachi Das  21 , Santu Ghosh  22 , M Subramanyam  23 , Thrivikrama Tantry  24 , Vandana Mangal  25 , Venkatesh H Keshavan  26
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Preoperative Investigations: Practice Guidelines from the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists

Goneppanavar Umesh et al. Indian J Anaesth. 2022 May.
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