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Review basic concepts of oxygen balance in the body

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA

    Beverly J. Newhouse MD

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  1. Beverly J. Newhouse MD
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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

  3. Perioperative Services,Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Scott Segal

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Newhouse, B.J. (2016). Introduction to Critical Care. In: Ehrenfeld, J., Urman, R., Segal, S. (eds) Anesthesia Student Survival Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11083-7_29

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