Kerosene-induced severe acute respiratory failure in near drowning: Reports on four cases and reviec of the literature

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1437-1440

  Segev, David ^a   Szold, Oded ^a   Fireman, Elizabeth ^a   Kluger, Yoram ^a   Sorkine, Patrick ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adult respiratory distress syndrome; Cardiac failure; Corticosteroids; Hydrocarbon; Kerosene; Respiratory failure

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; KEROSENE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWNING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INTOXICATION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; KEROSENE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEAR DROWNING; PNEUMONIA, LIPID; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; STEROIDS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 0032876083     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199908000-00004     Document Type: Article

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