Streamlining weaning: Protocols and weaning units

Thorax

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 175-177

  Simonds, A K ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG VENTILATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZATION; SURVIVAL; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ECONOMICS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY CARE UNITS; VENTILATOR WEANING;

EID: 15044345630     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2004.028688     Document Type: Editorial

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