1Intensive Care Unit, Campus Stuivenberg, ZiekenhuisNetwerk Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
2Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium. Email: [email protected]
Disclosures M.M. is founding President of World Society on Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (http://www.wsacs.org). M.M. is consultant for Holtech Medical and Spiegelberg and member of the medical advisory board of Pulsion Medical Systems. MM received royalties from Holtech and Spiegelberg for a total amount of 2500€ in the year 2006, this money has been invested into the organisation of the third WCACS in 2007. M.M. holds a patent with PMS. The other authors have no conflicts of interest.