Menno Emanuël Sluijter (born 31 July 1932,

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) is an anaesthetist from the

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. Sluijter obtained his MD at the

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in 1957 and his PhD at the same institution in 1963 with the dissertation ''The treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning by administration of oxygen at high atmospheric pressure''.Prof. dr. M.E. Sluijter, 1932 -
at the Album Academicum of the Universiteit van Amsterdam Sluijter is credited with the development of

pulsed radiofrequency Pulsed radiofrequency is the technique whereby radio frequency (RF) oscillations are gated at a rate of pulses (cycles) per second (one cycle per second is known as a hertz (Hz)). Radio frequency energies occupy to of the electromagnetic spectrum. ...

treatment. He is involved in research related to chronic pain. He is also affiliated with the Jan van Goyen Clinic in

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. He has helped to work on shifting how physicians deal with long term pain from 'pain management', to 'pain treatment.'

References

Sources

*Alexandre Teixeira MD, Menno E. Sluijter MD, PhD (2006): ''Intradiscal High-Voltage, Long-Duration Pulsed Radiofrequency for Discogenic Pain: A Preliminary Report.'' Pain Medicine 7 (5), pages 424–428.

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