Lung recruitment during mechanical positive pressure ventilation in the PICU: What can be learned from the literature?

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 779-790

  Halbertsma, F J J ^a   van der Hoeven, J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BAROTRAUMA; BODY POSITION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INJURY; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG RECRUITMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; REVIEW; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CHILD; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PULMONARY ALVEOLI;

EID: 22944436467     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04187.x     Document Type: Review

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