Right-to-left interatrial shunt in ARDS: Dramatic improvement in prone position

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 412-414

  Legras, A ^a   Dequin, P F ^a   Hazouard, E ^a   Doucet, O ^a   Tranquart, F ^a   Perrotin, D ^a  

^a CHU BRETONNEAU   (France)

Author keywords

ARDS; Doppler transcranial sonography; Hypoxemia; Mechanical ventilation; Patent foramen ovale; Prone position; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; OXYGEN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY POSTURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MYCOSIS; OXYGENATION; SUPINE POSITION;

AGED; ANOXEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; MALE; PRONE POSITION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0032957625     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050868     Document Type: Article

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