Medical ICU, ACZA Campus Stuivenberg, Antwerpen, Belgium
Part of this work was presented at the 14th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland, September 30–October 3, 2001; the 22nd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, March 19–22, 2002; the 13th Symposium Intensivmedizin and Intensivpflege, Bremen, Germany, February 19–21, 2003; the 23rd International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, March 18–21, 2003; and the 16th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 5–8, 2003.
Correspondence to Manu Malbrain, MD, Medical ICU, ACZA Campus Stuivenberg, Lange Beeldekensstraat 267, B-2060 Antwerpen 6, Belgium
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