Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 11 , Pages 1473-1475 , November 2010

San Antonio Vasopressin in Shock Symposium Report

  • Stephen M. Cohn

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, United States
    • ,
  • Lorne H. Blackbourne

      Affiliations

    • U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX, United States
    • ,
  • Donald W. Landry

      Affiliations

    • Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Kenneth G. Proctor

      Affiliations

    • University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, United States
    • ,
  • Keith R. Walley

      Affiliations

    • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    • ,
  • Volker Wenzel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 512 504 80430; fax: +43 512 504 6780430.

Received 26 May 2010 ,Accepted 3 June 2010.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.06.005.

☆☆ The meeting was sponsored by the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Department of Surgery, and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00326-6

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.06.005

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