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Patient safety during anaesthesia for magnetic resonance imaging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2004

J. Kampen
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig–Holstein, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
P. H. Tonner
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig–Holstein, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
J. Scholz
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig–Holstein, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
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2004 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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