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Volume 73,Number 12<br />
December 2009<br />
Editor<br />
Douglas R. Bacon, M.D., Chair<br />
Associate Editor<br />
N. Martin Giesecke, M.D.<br />
Assistant Editors<br />
Brooke Albright, M.D.<br />
(Junior Residents' Review Co-Editor)<br />
John F. Dombrowski, M.D.<br />
Ike I. Eriator, M.D.<br />
Girish P. Joshi, M.D.<br />
Angela Kendrick, M.D.<br />
James E. Szalados, M.D.<br />
Brad M.Taicher, D.O.<br />
(Senior Residents' Review Co-Editor)<br />
John E.Tetzlaff, M.D.<br />
Mary Ann Vann, M.D.<br />
Editorial Staff<br />
Dawn M. Glossa<br />
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<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=14"> Update on the Effects of Anesthetic Exposure on N</a>
<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=15"> and Behavior in Young Children Late in </a>
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<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=31"> improvements in medication safety in the operatin</a>
<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=32"> subspecialty news Our organization, which began </a>
<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=33"> of surgical patients. Dr. Merli is Chief Medica</a>
<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=34"> Call for Candidates for 2010 Presidential Scholar</a>
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<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=37"> 21. Did this anesthesiologist answer your questio</a>
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<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=41"> APSF Announces Research and Education Grant Winne</a>
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<a title="December 2009 ASA Newsletter page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/64734ae7?page=44"> FAER report SPA and FAER: Joining Forces to Furt</a>
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