Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 342, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 1301-1308

  Brower, Roy G ^a,f   Matthay, Michael A ^b   Morris, Alan ^c   Schoenfeld, David ^d   Thompson, B Taylor ^e   Wheeler, Arthur ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BAROTRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 0343893748     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200005043421801     Document Type: Article

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