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Editorial
. 2017 Oct;9(10):3483-3487.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.08.149.

Mechanical ventilation in brain injured patients: seeing the forest for the trees

Andrea Bruni  1 , Eugenio Garofalo  1 , Corrado Pelaia  1 , Federico Longhini  2 , Paolo Navalesi  1
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Editorial

Mechanical ventilation in brain injured patients: seeing the forest for the trees

Andrea Bruni et al. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Oct.
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. Unrelated to this article, P Navalesi contributed to the development of the helmet Next (Castar Next, Intersurgical, Mirandola, Italy), whose license for the patent belongs to Intersurgical S.P.A., and received royalties for that invention. P Navalesi’s research laboratory has received equipment and/or grants from Maquet Critical Care (Solna, Sweden), Intersurgical S.p.A. (Mirandola, Italy), Draeger Medical GmbH (Corsico, Italy), Biotest (Trezzano sul Naviglio, Italy) and Hillrom (Bussigny, Switzerland). P Navalesi received honoraria/speaking fees from Maquet Critical Care (Solna, Sweden), Covidien AG (Segrate, Italy), Draeger Medical GmbH (Corsico, Italy), Breas (Mölnlycke, Sweden), Hillrom (Chicago, IL), Resmed (Vimercate, MB) and Linde AG (Munich, Germany).

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