(Ramamoorthy) Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine.
(Kovarik) Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Oregon Health Sciences Center.
(Winn) Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine.
(Harlan) Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine.
(Sharar) Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine.
Received from the Departments of Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, Oregon. Submitted for publication March 18, 1996. Accepted for publication October 18, 1996. Supported in part by a Starter Grant and a Young Investigator Award from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (to Dr. Sharar), the Children's Hospital (Seattle, Washington) Research Endowment, and National Institutes of Health grants HL 30542 and GM 42686. Presented in part at the 1994 Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology meeting, Anaheim, California.
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