Ventilatory care in myasthenia gravis crisis: Assessing the baseline adverse event rate

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2663-2668

  Varelas, Panayiotis N ^a,b   Chua, Hoe Chin ^a   Natterman, Jeff ^a   Barmadia, Lisa ^a   Zimmerman, Pam ^a   Yahia, Abutaher ^a   Ulatowski, John ^a   Bhardwaj, Anish ^a   Williams, Michael A ^a   Hanley, Daniel F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atelectasis; Chest physicotherapy; Crisis; Lung injury score; Myasthenia; Pneumonia; Respiratory intervention index; Sighs; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATELECTASIS; BALTIMORE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036884379     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200212000-00009     Document Type: Article

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