Low levels of nitric oxide as contaminant in hospital compressed air: Physiologic significance?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1143-1146

  Lee, Kang H ^a   Tan, Patrick S K ^a   Rico, Philippe ^a   Delgado, Edgar ^a   Kellum, John A ^a   Pinsky, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressed air; Nitric oxide; Oxygenation; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; OXYGEN THERAPY; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0030757037     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199707000-00014     Document Type: Article

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