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Dr. Finn had worked a year and a half as an anesthesia resident. He had already performed anesthesia for major abdominal surgery, and with some supervision, he handled a significant intraoperative hemorrhage, some of which were in ASA 3 patients. He was proud of himself because after 9 months of ENT and 5 months of ophthalmology, he could finally do “real anesthesia.”
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Storch, J., Hänsel, M., Domino, K.B., Hübler, M. (2014). Case 4: A Day in the PACU. In: Hübler, M., Koch, T., Domino, K. (eds) Complications and Mishaps in Anesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45407-3_4
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