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Case 59: A Near Tragedy

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After a long week in the operating room, you are relaxing on a beach south of Durban in South Africa. The weather is wonderful. Just behind the beach is a lagoon. When the tide comes in, the Indian Ocean enters the lagoon at the end of the beach where there are many rocks.

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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2017). Case 59: A Near Tragedy. In: Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71467-7_59

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