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Routine general anesthesia with tracheal intubation is an undesirable and risky technique in individuals with pre-existing chronic respiratory diseases undergoing abdominal surgery. Instead, other modalities of regional anesthesia, such as combined thoracic spinal -epidural anesthesia, could be used as the only anesthetic technique with more excellent health care outcomes.
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