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  1. Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

    Paul J. Young

  2. Intensive Care Unit, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand

    Paul J. Young

  3. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Niklas Nielsen

  4. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Helsingborg Hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden

    Niklas Nielsen

  5. Division of Critical Care and Trauma, George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Manoj Saxena

  6. Intensive Care Unit, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    Manoj Saxena

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All authors report receiving speaker’s fees from Bard Medical. PY is the chief investigator for the REACTOR research programme, NN is chief investigator for TTM-2 trial, and MS is the chief investigator for the TTM-TBI research programme.

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Young, P.J., Nielsen, N. & Saxena, M. Fever control. Intensive Care Med 44, 227–230 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4969-8

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