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Treating Vasospasm with IV Milrinone: Relax (The Vessel) or Don’t Do It!

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A Practice Guidance for Critical Care Management of SAH to this article was published on 09 May 2023

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    Vincent Robert-Edan & Karim Lakhal

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KL drafting the manuscript. VRE: drafting the manuscript. The final manuscript was approved by all authors.

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Vincent Robert-Edan has no conflict of interest in connection with the work submitted. In addition, VRE received, during the past 3 years, travel fees from Pfizer (once, in 2020). Karim Lakhal has no conflict of interest in connection with the work submitted. In addition, KL received, during the past 3 years, congress registration from Pfizer (once in 2022) and both congress registration and travel fees from Pfizer (twice, in 2020) and Advanz Pharma/Correvio (twice, in 2020 and once in 2021).

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Robert-Edan, V., Lakhal, K. Treating Vasospasm with IV Milrinone: Relax (The Vessel) or Don’t Do It!. Neurocrit Care 39, 547–548 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-023-01789-z

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