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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA

    Shahla Siddiqui

  2. Intensive Care Units, Baía Sul Group Hospitals, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Lara Kretzer

  3. Department of Critical Care, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Victoria Metaxa

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Siddiqui, S., Kretzer, L. & Metaxa, V. Caring for the dying patient in ICU. Intensive Care Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-024-07442-3

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