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Gretchen L Sacha¹, Lu Wang^{1

2}, Seth R Bauer¹

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Comment

Gretchen L Sacha et al. Crit Care Med. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 1;50(10):e776-e777.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005643. Epub 2022 Sep 12.

Gretchen L Sacha¹, Lu Wang^{1

2}, Seth R Bauer¹

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Bauer received funding from Wolters Kluwer. The remaining authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

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