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01-03-2019 | Editorial

Me, the transplant and the ICU: a patient’s story

Author: Geoffrey Bonosevich

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 3/2019

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As an active 45 year old in the middle of my career, a non-smoker with ideal weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) and a participant in half-marathons, the last place I expected to end up was in a hospital, let alone in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). My previous hospital exposure was highly limited. But that would change suddenly in 2003, after I started noticing that something wasn’t quite right with my health. …

Title: Me, the transplant and the ICU: a patient’s story
Author: Geoffrey Bonosevich
Publication date: 01-03-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 3/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5459-3

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