The 'ephemeral' intensive care units that saved the French healthcare system, a new concept to be preserved

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¹ From the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France (FV, MG, FB), Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California (FV), Department of Perioperative Medicine, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France (MJ) and Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (MJ).

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Franck Verdonk et al. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2021.

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. 2021 Apr 1;38(4):441-442.

doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001320.

¹ From the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France (FV, MG, FB), Department of Anaesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California (FV), Department of Perioperative Medicine, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France (MJ) and Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (MJ).

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