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Metadata
Title
Vasopressor therapy: not like antibiotics!
Authors
Jan Bakker
Jukka Takala
Publication date
01-07-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4335-2

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