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  1. Faculty of Law, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Bridgette Toy-Cronin

  2. Department of Anaesthesia, Waikato Hospital, Pembroke Street, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Kelly Byrne MBChB, FANZCA

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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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Toy-Cronin, B., Byrne, K. (2017). Medical Legal Aspects of Regional Anesthesia: Legal Perspective. In: Finucane, B., Tsui, B. (eds) Complications of Regional Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49386-2_35

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