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  1. Departmento de Medicina Intensiva, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Glenn Hernández & Jan Bakker

  2. Service de réanimation médicale, Hopital Bicetre, Hopitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud, Paris, France

    Jean-Louis Teboul

  3. Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris-Sud, Paris, France

    Jean-Louis Teboul

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

    Jan Bakker

  5. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, New York University, New York, USA

    Jan Bakker

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

    Jan Bakker

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Hernández, G., Teboul, JL. & Bakker, J. Norepinephrine in septic shock. Intensive Care Med 45, 687–689 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5499-8

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