Ting Zheng, Huihong Xie, Fei Gao, Cansheng Gong, Wei Lin, Peng Ye, Yuqing Liu, Bingwei He, Xiaochun Zheng
Research and application of a teaching platform for combined spinal-epidural anesthesia based on virtual reality and haptic feedback technology
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