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Target blood pressure for septic and vasodilatory shock: what is optimal?

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The initial correspondence authors thank Kelly Zammit, BVSc, from Edanz Group (http://www.edanzediting.com/ac), for editing a draft of this manuscript.

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The initial correspondence was supported by KAKENHI Grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (numbers JP 16K09541 and 17K11573), and by the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE), and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED).

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Ishii, J., Ohshimo, S., Shime, N. et al. Target blood pressure for septic and vasodilatory shock: what is optimal?. Intensive Care Med 44, 548–549 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5127-7

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