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Year in review in intensive care medicine, 2004. III. Outcome, ICU organisation, scoring, quality of life, ethics, psychological problems and communication in the ICU, immunity and hemodynamics during sepsis, pediatric and neonatal critical care, experimental studiesOpen access

Peter Andrews, Elie Azoulay, Massimo Antonelli, Laurent Brochard, Christian Brun-Buisson, Geoffrey Dobb, Jean-Yves Fagon, Herwig Gerlach, Johan Groeneveld, Jordi Mancebo, Philipp Metnitz, Stefano Nava, Jerome Pugin, Michael Pinsky, Peter Radermacher, Christian Richard, Robert Tasker, Benoit Vallet
Year in Review 2004
Volume 31, Issue 3 / March , 2005

Pages 356 - 372

No abstract available.

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