THE PREOPERATIVE CHEST X-RAY
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The preoperative chest X-ray.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines routine as "a regular course or procedure, a more or less mechanical or unvarying performance of certain acts or duties". Over tie past 20 years a chest radio-graph has become a routine part of the assessment of a patient prior to general anaesthesia. It is right that we should periodically confirm, or perhaps question, our reasons for performing any invest...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1974
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/46.8.558