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Monitoring Lung Function with Electrical Impedance Tomography in the Intensive Care Unit
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W(h)at(t) counts in electricity consumption in the intensive care unit
Hendrik Drinhaus1, Christine Schumacher2, Jorrit Drinhaus3
1Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937, Cologne, Germany. hendrik.drinhaus@uk-koeln.de.
Intensive Care Medicine
|March 23, 2023
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