The Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome: Syndrome, Metaphor, and Unsolved Clinical Challenge

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  2021

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  Critical Care Medicine

• Publication date

  2021-07-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005139PMID 34259449
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