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The perioperative management of neurosurgical patients requires special considerations – an adequate history may be difficult to obtain, the procedure may be technically challenging, and bleeding may be catastrophic.
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Duval, V. (2011). Neurosurgery. In: Cohn, S. (eds) Perioperative Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-498-2_13
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