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In off-pump cardiac surgery, neuromuscular monitoring should be mandatory and immediate extubation is feasible

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2004

J. F. Olivier
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Université de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada
T. M. Hemmerling
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Université de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada
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2004 European Society of Anaesthesiology

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