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Affiliations

¹ Division of General and Emergency Medicine, University Department of Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland, and Division of General and Emergency Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Global Medical Affairs, B·R·A·H·M·S GmbH, Hennigsdorf, Germany; Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.

Comment

Philipp Schuetz et al. Crit Care Med. 2017 Oct.

. 2017 Oct;45(10):e1098-e1099.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002608.

¹ Division of General and Emergency Medicine, University Department of Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland, and Division of General and Emergency Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Global Medical Affairs, B·R·A·H·M·S GmbH, Hennigsdorf, Germany; Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.

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