The authors reply

Nicolas Massart^{1

2}, Erwan Flecher³, Vincent Auffret⁴, James Teriss Ross⁵, Alexandre Mansour^{2

6}, Nicolas Nesseler^{2

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Intensive-care Unit, Hôpital Yves Le Foll Hospital, Saint-Brieuc, France.
² Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Pontchaillou, University Hospital of Rennes, Rennes, France.
³ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pontchaillou University Hospital, University of Rennes 1, Signal and Image Treatment Laboratory (LTSI), Inserm U1099, Rennes, France.
⁴ Service de Cardiologie, Univ Rennes, CHU de Rennes, Inserm LTSI U1099, Rennes, France.
⁵ Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.
⁶ CIC 1414 (Centre d'Investigation Clinique de Rennes), Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, Rennes, France.
⁷ Institut NUMECAN - UMR_A 1341, UMR_S 1241, Univ Rennes, CHU de Rennes, Inra, Inserm, Rennes, France.

Comment

Nicolas Massart et al. Crit Care Med. 2022.

. 2022 Jun 1;50(6):e607-e608.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005542. Epub 2022 May 19.

Nicolas Massart^{1

2}, Erwan Flecher³, Vincent Auffret⁴, James Teriss Ross⁵, Alexandre Mansour^{2

6}, Nicolas Nesseler^{2

6

7}

¹ Intensive-care Unit, Hôpital Yves Le Foll Hospital, Saint-Brieuc, France.
² Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Pontchaillou, University Hospital of Rennes, Rennes, France.
³ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pontchaillou University Hospital, University of Rennes 1, Signal and Image Treatment Laboratory (LTSI), Inserm U1099, Rennes, France.
⁴ Service de Cardiologie, Univ Rennes, CHU de Rennes, Inserm LTSI U1099, Rennes, France.
⁵ Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA.
⁶ CIC 1414 (Centre d'Investigation Clinique de Rennes), Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, Rennes, France.
⁷ Institut NUMECAN - UMR_A 1341, UMR_S 1241, Univ Rennes, CHU de Rennes, Inra, Inserm, Rennes, France.

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Conflict of interest statement

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

A Hypothesis-Generating Clinical Study We Should Be Concerned About.
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