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Nordic Countries: Principles of Safe Practice in Local and Regional Anesthesia

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Orton Invalid Foundation, Helsinki, Finland

    Mikko T. Pitkänen MD, PhD

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Brendan T. Finucane

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Ban C.H. Tsui

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Pitkänen, M.T. (2017). Nordic Countries: Principles of Safe Practice in Local and Regional Anesthesia. In: Finucane, B., Tsui, B. (eds) Complications of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49386-2_30

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