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Anesthesia methods used by anesthetic specialists for circumcision cases

National survey study for Turkey

Cafer Altaş, Gamze Küçükosman, Bülent S. Yurtlu, Rahşan D. Okyay, Bengü G. Aydın, Özcan Pişkin, Murat Çimencan, Hilal Ayoğlu, Volkan Hancı and Işıl Özkoçak-Turan
Saudi Medical Journal January 2017, 38 (1) 75-81; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.1.15632
Cafer Altaş
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Gamze Küçükosman
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Bülent S. Yurtlu
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Rahşan D. Okyay
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Bengü G. Aydın
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Özcan Pişkin
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Murat Çimencan
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Hilal Ayoğlu
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Volkan Hancı
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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Işıl Özkoçak-Turan
From the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Altaş), Sakarya Education and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Küçükosman, Pişkin, Çimencan, Okyay, Aydın, Ayoğlu), Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Yurtlu, Hancı), Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, and the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (Özkoçak-Turan), Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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