Jacobs, Rita
Lochy, Stijn
Malbrain, Manu L. N. G.
Article History
Received: 12 November 2018
Accepted: 14 November 2018
First Online: 26 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: MLNGM is Professor of Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and ICU Director at the University Hospital in Brussels (UZB), Belgium. He is founding President of WSACS (The Abdominal Compartment Society, ExternalRef removed) and current Treasurer, he is also member of the Medical Advisory Board of Getinge (formerly Pulsion Medical Systems) and Serenno Medical, and consults for ConvaTec, Acelity, Spiegelberg, and Holtech Medical. He is co-founder of the International Fluid Academy (IFA). The IFA is integrated within the not-for-profit charitable organization iMERiT, International Medical Education and Research Initiative, under Belgian law. The IFA website (ExternalRef removed) is now an official SMACC affiliated site (Social Media and Critical Care) and its content is based on the philosophy of FOAM (Free Open Access Medical education—#FOAMed). The site recently received the HONcode quality label for medical education (ExternalRef removed). The other authors have no potential conflicts of interest in relation to the contents of this paper.