Optimizing ventilatory support of the potential organ donor during evolving brain death: Maximizing lung availability for transplantation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 548-549

  Matuschak, George M ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Brain death; Lung protective ventilation; Lung transplantation

Indexed keywords

JANUS KINASE; PROTEIN FOS;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALLOGRAFT; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRAIN DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TIDAL VOLUME; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

EID: 31344462622     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000199980.48324.FA     Document Type: Editorial

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