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Archive > November, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 11

Editor's Page

Brain Monitors or Awareness Monitors?

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Dan O The brain monitor's search for a problem to solve may be over, and all because the phrase you never heard before is suddenly everywhere you look.

Anesthesia awareness.

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