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Available online /supplements/7/S3 Critical Care Volume 7 Suppl 3, 2003 Second International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine for Latin America S?o Paulo, Brazil, 25–28 June 2003 Published online: 25 June 2003 These abstracts are online at /supplements/7/S3 ? 2003 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) CARDIOLOGY P1 Impact of peroperative administration of steroid over inflammatory response and pulmonary dysfunction following cardiac surgery HTF Mendon?a Filho1,2, LAA Campos1, RV Gomes1, FES Fagundes1, EM Nunes1, R Gomes2, F Bozza2, PT Bozza2, HC