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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Radiology, Veterans Administration Hospital, Baltimore, MD

    Juraj Sprung, Frederick D. Jones & Denis L. Bourke

  2. University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

    Daina Pack & John Diaconis

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Sprung, J., Jones, F.D., Bourke, D.L. et al. A new complication during pulmonary artery catheterization. J Clin Monit 10, 264–266 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02899512

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