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If you hold a lighted candle, people in the darkness, attracted by your light, come near to you, stick their candle to yours, and they will have the light for them, and you will still have your light, noone has shadowed your area, everyone is rich from this light (heard from a lecture of Cédric Villani, 2010 Fields medal).
This is how we would like to critical ultrasound widespread.
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Lichtenstein, D.A. (2016). Free Considerations. In: Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15371-1_37
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