From the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (AC), Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (AC), First Department of Intensive Care Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece (SDM), Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, Univ Paris Est Créteil, INSERM, IMRB (RT, NM), Service d’Anesthésie-Réanimation Chirurgicale, DMU CARE, DHU A-TVB, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor (NM), Faculté de Santé, Univ Paris Est Créteil, Créteil, France (NM)

Correspondence to Prof. Athanasios Chalkias, Committee on Shock, HSCPR (Affiliated member of the International Federation of Shock Societies), 89 Patision Av., Athens 10434, Greece. E-mail: [email protected]