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GM is funded by the Research Foundation, Flanders (FWO), as senior clinical investigator (1843118 N) and receives project research funding from the KU Leuven (C24/17/072); he has received consultancy and lecture fees from Codman. RS received grants from the French Ministry of Health, the French Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SRLF) and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), and lecture fees from Baxter.

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