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Adenosine for the treatment of sustained sinus nodal reentrant tachycardia during general anesthesia

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1010, 10029-6574, New York, NY, USA

    Don G. Han, Meg A. Rosenblatt & Allan P. Reed

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Han, D.G., Rosenblatt, M.A. & Reed, A.P. Adenosine for the treatment of sustained sinus nodal reentrant tachycardia during general anesthesia. J Anesth 9, 188–191 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479855

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