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Higher PEEP in intubated COVID-19-associated ARDS patients? We are not sure
Andrey I Yaroshetskiy1,2, Sergey N Avdeev3, Anna P Krasnoshchekova3,4
1Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), 8 bld 2, Trubetskaya Str, Moscow, Russia, 119991. dr.intensivist@gmail.com.
Critical Care (London, England)
|October 26, 2022
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