Fatal pulmonary edema after nitric acid inhalation

Resuscitation

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Bur, Andreas ^a   Wagner, Andreas ^a   Röggla, Martin ^a   Berzlanovic, Andrea ^b   Herkner, Harald ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Laggner, Anton N ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Inhalation injury; Nitric acid; Nitric oxide; Pulmonary edema; Surfactant

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMINOPHYLLINE; BUDESONIDE; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; LUNG SURFACTANT EXTRACT; NITRIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; PIRITRAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; SURFACTANT; TERBUTALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CLEANING; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HUMAN; INHALATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; TIME;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PULMONARY EDEMA; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0030759302     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(97)00029-4     Document Type: Article

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