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Vasopressor therapy: not like antibiotics!

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Adults, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan Bakker

  2. Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Jan Bakker

  3. Departamento de Medicina Intensiva, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Jan Bakker

  4. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Jukka Takala

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Bakker, J., Takala, J. Vasopressor therapy: not like antibiotics!. Intensive Care Med 42, 1195–1196 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4335-2

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