Overview - Comfort and distress in the ICU: Scope of the problem

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 111-113

  Sessler, C N ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0034909903     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-13825     Document Type: Short Survey

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