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  1. Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Cochin University Hospital, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75679, Paris Cedex 14, France

    Alain Cariou

  2. Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, BA1 3NG, UK

    Jerry P. Nolan

  3. Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Kjetil Sunde

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Cariou, A., Nolan, J.P. & Sunde, K. Ten strategies to increase survival of cardiac arrest patients. Intensive Care Med 41, 1820–1823 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3788-z

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