Obstetric anesthesia for the obese and morbidly obese patient: an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of treatment

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  2007

• Venue

  Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

• Publication date

  2007-12-18

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01483.xPMID 18173431
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