Preventing postoperative pulmonary complications: call your physiotherapist?

K. Valkenet (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Post-operative pulmonary complications: myth or reality ?
Session: Post-operative pulmonary complications: myth or reality ?
Session type: Hot topics
Number: 3469

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