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Norepinephrine weaning in septic shock patients by closed loop control based on fuzzy logic

Mehdi Merouani1 email, Bruno Guignard2 email, François Vincent3 email, Stephen W Borron4 email, Philippe Karoubi3 email, Jean-Philippe Fosse3 email, Yves Cohen3 email, Christophe Clec'h3 email, Eric Vicaut5 email, Carole Marbeuf-Gueye6 email, Frederic Lapostolle1 email and Frederic Adnet1 email

1Samu 93 – EA 3409, Université Paris 13, Hôpital Avicenne, Rue de Stalingrad, 93000 Bobigny, France

2Département d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Avenue Charles-de-Gaulle, 92100 Boulogne Billancourt, France

3Service de Réanimation, Hôpital Avicenne, Rue de Stalingrad, 93000 Bobigny, France

4Department of Surgery (Emergency Medicine), University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Medical Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA

5Unité de Recherche Clinique, Hôpital Fernand Widal, Rue Ambroise Paré, 75475 Paris Cedex, France

6BioMoCeTi, UMR 7033, UFR SMBH, Université Paris 13, Rue Marcel Cachin, 93000 Bobigny, France

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Critical Care 2008, 12:R155doi:10.1186/cc7149

Published: 9 December 2008


See related commentary by Hazelzet, http://ccforum.com/content/13/1/116


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