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  1. Section Thorax-Vascular Disease-Abdomen-Metabolism, Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Ambroise Paré, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 92104, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

    Antoine Vieillard-Baron

  2. Université Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, 78000, Versailles, France

    Antoine Vieillard-Baron

  3. Anaesthesia and Adult Critical Care, St George’s Hospital and St George’s University of London, London, UK

    M. Cecconi

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Vieillard-Baron, A., Cecconi, M. Understanding cardiac failure in sepsis. Intensive Care Med 40, 1560–1563 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3367-8

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