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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1992 pp 3–13Cite as

Multiple Organ Failure and Infection: Cause, Consequence, or Coincidence

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“... the major limiting factor after injury in patients who do not have brain injury is not so much a system, but rather a combination of events that can best be called multiple systems failure, progressive systems failure, or sequential systems failure—... Although not a well-defined syndrome, it involves progressive failure of many or all systems after an overwhelming injury or operation.” (Baue (1975), [1])

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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Marshall, J.C. (1992). Multiple Organ Failure and Infection: Cause, Consequence, or Coincidence. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1992. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1992. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84734-9_1

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