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  1. John Farman Intensive Care Unit, Box 17, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, CB3 7LE, Cambridge, UK

    Iain Mackenzie, Susan Ingle, Suhail Zaidi & Simon Buczaski

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Mackenzie, I., Ingle, S., Zaidi, S. et al. Hypoglycaemia? So what!. Intensive Care Med 32, 620–621 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0100-2

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