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Chapter 12 - Stress Response to Surgery in the Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2018

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Nazish K. Hashmi  and
Mihai V. Podgoreanu
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Shamsuddin Akhtar  and
Stanley Rosenbaum
Shamsuddin Akhtar
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Yale University School of Medicine
Stanley Rosenbaum
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Yale University School of Medicine
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Principles of Geriatric Critical Care , pp. 168 - 186
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