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A microcirculation-guided trial doomed to fail

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  1. Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

    Matthias P. Hilty

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, UMR-S 999, Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), INSERM, Paris Saclay University, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

    Jacques Duranteau

  3. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Infermi Hospital, AUSL Romagna, Rimini, Italy

    Jonathan Montomoli

  4. Department of Anaesthesiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Tony Yu-Chang Yeh

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

    Can Ince

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MPH and CI hold a patent on the use of AI to analyze microcirculatory images, and we have developed an automated microcirculatory analysis software platform. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Hilty, M.P., Duranteau, J., Montomoli, J. et al. A microcirculation-guided trial doomed to fail. Intensive Care Med 49, 1557–1558 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-023-07223-4

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