Cerebral palsy and anaesthesia
PORANEE WONGPRASARTSUK,
JOHN STEVENS,
PORANEE WONGPRASARTSUK
Department of Anaesthesia, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London,
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Department of Anaesthesia, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Search for more papers by this authorPORANEE WONGPRASARTSUK,
JOHN STEVENS,
PORANEE WONGPRASARTSUK
Department of Anaesthesia, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London,
Search for more papers by this authorJOHN STEVENS
Department of Anaesthesia, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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Poranee Wongprasartsuk,
Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Level 1, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK (e-mail: [email protected]).

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