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Abdominal compartment syndrome: it's time to pay attention!

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  1. Intensive Care Unit, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, Campus Stuivenberg, Lange Beeldekensstraat 267, 2060, Antwerpen 6, Belgium

    Manu L. N. G. Malbrain

  2. Department of Surgical Education, Orlando Regional Medical Center, 86 West Underwood St., 32806, Orlando, FL, USA

    Michael L. Cheatham

  3. Departments of Critical Care Medicine & Surgery, Foothills Hospital, 1403 29 St. NW, T2N 2T9 AB, Calgary, Canada

    Andrew Kirkpatrick

  4. Trauma, Liverpool Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Michael Sugrue

  5. Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Intensieve Zorgen 1K12-C, Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Jan De Waele

  6. Surgery, Trauma and Critical Care, Medical Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., USA

    Rao Ivatury

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Correspondence to Manu L. N. G. Malbrain.

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M.M. is founding President of the World Society on Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and chairman of the 3rd World Congress on ACS

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Malbrain, M.L.N.G., Cheatham, M.L., Kirkpatrick, A. et al. Abdominal compartment syndrome: it's time to pay attention!. Intensive Care Med 32, 1912–1914 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-006-0303-6

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