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Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain in Neonates and Children

Series Editors: A. Gullo, Catania University Hospital, Catania, Italy

M. Astuto, Catania University Hospital, Catania, Italy

I. Salvo, “V. Buzzi” Hospital, Milan, Italy

Marinella Astuto

Editor

Basics

In cooperation with

Luigi Marchiori

Silvia Pachera

Luca Bortolasi

Riccardo Manfredi

Paola Capelli

Marinella Astuto, MD

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care

Pediatric Anesthesia and Intensive Care Section

Catania University Hospital

Catania, Italy

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To my father, who would have been the first

and most interested reader of this book,

and to Maria, my teacher, both of anesthesia and of life