Anesthesia-related unexpected cardiac arrest- What are we doing wrong on preoperative evaluation?

Porto Biomed J

Department of Anaesthesiology, Unidade Local de Saúde de Matosinhos, Matosinhos, Portugal.

Published: September 2022

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