Erratum to: Intensive Care Med DOI 10.1007/s00134-009-1694-y

The address given for the authors P. Hausfater and B. Riou was incomplete.

Their full address is as follows:

Emergency Department, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire (CHU) Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France.