Surgery
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Supplemental perioperative fluid administration increases tissue oxygen pressure

,Accepted 15 August 2003.

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☆ Supported by NIH Grant GM 58273, the Joseph Drown Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif), and the Commonwealth of Kentucky Research Challenge Trust Fund (Louisville, Ky). The THERMAL SBF-meter was donated by MedTech, Ltd (Tel Aviv, Israel).

☆☆ Reprint requests: Andrea Kurz, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110.

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doi: 10.1067/msy.2003.80

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