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Respiratory Management of Perioperative Obese Patients

David AE Imber, Massimiliano Pirrone, Changsheng Zhang, Daniel F Fisher, Robert M Kacmarek and Lorenzo Berra
Respiratory Care December 2016, 61 (12) 1681-1692; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.04732

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