Postoperative seizures: A manifestation of preoperative fasting

CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 · J Neuroanaesth Crit Care 2014; 01(02): 147-148
DOI: 10.4103/2348-0548.130408

Correspondence

Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd.

Surya Kumar Dube

Department of Neuroanaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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S. Sanjeev Kumar

¹Department of Anaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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Gyaninder Pal Singh

Department of Neuroanaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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