Unintended inhalation of nitric oxide by contamination of compressed air: Physiologic effects and interference with intended nitric oxide inhalation in acute lung injury

Anesthesiology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 945-950

  Benzing, Albert ^a   Loop, Torsten ^b   Mols, Georg ^b   Geiger, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Air pollution; Mechanical ventilation

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GAS EXCHANGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG INJURY; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0032830587     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199910000-00013     Document Type: Article

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