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. 2025 Jan 1;140(1):e5-e7.
doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007308. Epub 2024 Dec 3.

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Elin Kismul Aakre  1   2 , Anette Hylen Ranhoff  3 , Karl Ove Hufthammer  4 , Ib Jammer  5
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Elin Kismul Aakre et al. Anesth Analg. .
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Conflicts of Interest: Ib Jammer reports research grants from the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and Roche, speaker honoraria from Orion and is chair of the Perioperative Medicine and Management (PoMM) program from the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (SSAI).

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