Acute lung injury: Is the intensive care unit the tip of the iceberg?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1860-1861

  Quartin, Andrew A ^a   Schein, Roland M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Incidence; Intensive care unit; Pneumonia; Respiratory distress syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INJURY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIDAL VOLUME;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038467643     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000063444.28173.79     Document Type: Editorial

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