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Anesthetic Considerations for Procedures in Bronchoscopy Suite

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The infrastructure of the bronchoscopy room suite, where a variety of interventional procedures are done by interventional pulmonologists has been fine-tuned to accommodate the advances and innovations of medical science irrespective of diagnostic, curative, or palliative trends. Consequently, there has been increasing demand for the specialized anesthesia services required for bronchoscopic procedures.

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Dua, N. (2020). Anesthetic Considerations for Procedures in Bronchoscopy Suite. In: Sood, J., Sharma, S. (eds) Clinical Thoracic Anesthesia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0746-5_16

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