Acute lung injury after peppermint oil injection

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1160-1162

  Behrends, Matthias ^a   Beiderlinden, Martin ^a   Peters, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPPERMINT OIL; PFEFFERMINZOL;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CASE REPORT; DIURESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 25644455140     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000175774.33435.87     Document Type: Article

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