Prone position: Can we move from better oxygenation to better survival?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 453-455

  Reignier, Jean ^a,b  

^a District Hospital Center   (France)

^b University of Medicine   (France)

Author keywords

Lung injury; Mechanical ventilation; Prone position

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BODY POSTURE; EDITORIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG INJURY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; SUPINE POSITION; TIDAL VOLUME;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG; PRONE POSITION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

EID: 13444253749     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000153523.84274.F2     Document Type: Editorial

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