Navigating Europe's sustainable anaesthesia pathway

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Electronics and Information Systems, IBiTech, Ghent University (AFK), Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge, Bruges, Belgium (AFK), Department of Anaesthesiology, UZ Leuven (AT, SR) and Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (AT, SR).

Editorial

Alain F Kalmar et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2024.

. 2024 Jul 1;41(7):465-467.

doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001993. Epub 2024 Jun 12.

¹ From the Department of Electronics and Information Systems, IBiTech, Ghent University (AFK), Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge, Bruges, Belgium (AFK), Department of Anaesthesiology, UZ Leuven (AT, SR) and Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (AT, SR).

No abstract available

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