Prone positioning: Do not turn it off!

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1012-1013

  Guerin, Claude ^a  

^a CROIX ROUSSE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GAS EXCHANGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG VOLUME; OXYGENATION; PATIENT; SPIROMETRY; SUPINE POSITION;

HUMANS; PRONE POSITION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23744438464     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-2659-4     Document Type: Editorial

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