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Juan Pablo Domecq^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
² Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
³ Unidad de Conocimiento y Evidencia, CONEVID, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
⁴ Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health System, Mankato, MN.
⁵ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

Comment

Juan Pablo Domecq et al. Crit Care Med. 2022.

. 2022 Apr 1;50(4):e406-e407.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005456.

Juan Pablo Domecq^{1

2

3

4

5}, Chang Liu⁵, Kianoush B Kashani^{1

2}

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
² Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
³ Unidad de Conocimiento y Evidencia, CONEVID, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
⁴ Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health System, Mankato, MN.
⁵ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

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