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Revisiting the Results of Bigelow's Famed Canine Experiments-a Chance Encounter

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Publisher Springer
Date 2022 May 9
PMID 35529007
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Although the properties of temperature are utilized routinely in the practice of cardiac surgery, it is a humble effort to share the experience of a young trainee who witnessed and eventually harnessed this physical quantity's power in a challenging cardiopulmonary bypass wean off.

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