(Lennon) Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
(Murray) Carl E. Wasmuth Endowed Chair and Director, Center for Anesthesiology Research, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Received from the Center for Anesthesiology Research, Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. Submitted for publication January 8, 1996. Accepted for publication May 3, 1996. Work performed in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland. Supported by National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Grants HL-40361 AND HL-38291. Presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, San Francisco, California, October 15-19, 1994. P.F.L. was a Staff Anesthesiologist and Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at The National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors, and do not represent official policy of the Navy Medical Department or the Department of Defense.
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