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Case 88: Communication Is Essential

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You are working as an anesthesiologist in a medium-size rural hospital. The hospital oxygen pipeline is to be closed down over the weekend. The reason is that the existing hospital pipeline is being joined up with the oxygen pipeline in the new hospital building which is adjacent to the original one.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    John G. Brock-Utne MA, MD, PhD, FFA(SA)

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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2017). Case 88: Communication Is Essential. In: Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71467-7_88

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