(Drenger) Senior Lecturer in Anesthesiology, Hadassah University Hospital.
(Parker) Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(Frank) Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(Beattie) Professor of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Received from the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel; The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. Submitted for publication August 31, 1995. Accepted for publication September 12, 1996. Presented in part at the 9th European Congress of Anesthesiology, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2–7, 1994.
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