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Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Penn State Health, Hershey Outpatient Surgery Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, nrajan@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
³ Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Anesthesia for Bronchoscopic Surgery, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Wisconsin Surgicenter, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Boulder Valley Anesthesiology PLLC, UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital and Surgery Center, Boulder Community Health, Foothills Hospital, Boulder, Colorado.
⁶ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Dallas, Texas.

Niraja Rajan et al. Anesth Analg. 2025.

. 2025 Apr 1;140(4):e39-e40.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000007387. Epub 2025 Jan 27.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Penn State Health, Hershey Outpatient Surgery Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, nrajan@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
³ Departments of General Anesthesiology and Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Anesthesia for Bronchoscopic Surgery, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Wisconsin Surgicenter, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Boulder Valley Anesthesiology PLLC, UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital and Surgery Center, Boulder Community Health, Foothills Hospital, Boulder, Colorado.
⁶ Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Dallas, Texas.

No abstract available

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