ICU admission of the lung transplant recipient following hospital discharge

Chest

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 813-815

  Massad, Malek G ^a,c   Kpodonu, Jacques ^a   Jaffe, H Ari ^b  

^a Thoracic Organ Transplantation ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECIPIENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1642388504     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.125.3.813     Document Type: Editorial

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