Competent substitute . Critical junction . There are some additional considerations which must be considered in a decision. Patients have given their informed consent to anesthesia. Thus, if the anesthetist makes a determination that he or she may safely leave the patient in another's care so that the anesthetist may handle an emergency, the decision had better be correct.
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