Influence of potassium dichromate on tracheal secretions in critically ill patients

Chest

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 936-941

  Frass, Michael ^a   Dielacher, Christoph ^b   Linkesch, Manfred ^b   Endler, Christian ^a   Muchitsch, Ilse ^a   Schuster, Ernst ^c   Kaye, Alan ^d  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b II Department of Internal Medicine

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

COPD; Double blind; Extubation; Homeopathy; Placebo controlled study; Randomized; Tracheal secretions

Indexed keywords

C 30; DICHROMATE POTASSIUM; PLACEBO; EXPECTORANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXTUBATION; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; PARALLEL DESIGN; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN ULCER; SMOKING; TRACHEA MUCUS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SUCTION; TRACHEA;

ADMINISTRATION, SUBLINGUAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DOSAGE FORMS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXPECTORANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POTASSIUM DICHROMATE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SUCTION; TRACHEA;

EID: 15844380621     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.3.936     Document Type: Article

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