Timing Is Everything

James Chun-Huang Chen^{1

2}, Katherine Mary Bailey^{1

2}, Victoria Buswell^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesia, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Editorial

James Chun-Huang Chen et al. Paediatr Anaesth. 2025 Nov.

. 2025 Nov;35(11):887-888.

doi: 10.1111/pan.70036. Epub 2025 Aug 13.

James Chun-Huang Chen^{1

2}, Katherine Mary Bailey^{1

2}, Victoria Buswell^{1

2}

¹ Department of Anesthesia, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

No abstract available

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