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  1. Private Practice Plastic Surgeon, 200 South Orange Ave, Suite 255, Livingston, NJ, 07039, USA

    John Mesa MD

  2. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Saint John Regional Hospital and St Joseph’s Hospital, Saint John, NB, Canada

    Don Lalonde

  3. Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Luis O. Vasconez

  4. Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Luis O. Vasconez

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Mesa, J., Lalonde, D., Vasconez, L.O. (2017). Local and Regional Anesthesia in Plastic Surgery: Safety Considerations and Management of Adverse Events. In: Finucane, B., Tsui, B. (eds) Complications of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49386-2_25

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