Low-dose inhaled nitric oxide improves the oxygenation and ventilation of infants and children with acute, hypoxemic respiratory failure

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 989-996

  Ream, Robert S ^a,c   Hauver, John F ^b   Lynch, Robert E ^a   Kountzman, Barbara ^b   Gale, Gordon B ^a   Mink, Richard B ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cardinal Glennon Hospital   (United States)

^c Cardinal Glennon Children's H ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Dose response; Inhaled; Lung diseases; Mechanical ventilation; Methemoglobinemia; Nitric oxide; Oxygen; Respiratory dead space; Respiratory insufficiency; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PH; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANOXEMIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0033030260     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199905000-00042     Document Type: Article

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