Mechanical ventilation: What have we learned?

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 258-294

  Fenstermacher, Denise ^a   Hong, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanical ventilation; Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation; Patient ventilator synchrony; Protective lung strategies; Tracheostomy; Ventilator mode; Ventilator settings; Weaning

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SUCRALFATE;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORTALITY; NURSE; NURSING; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL TIME; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VENTILATOR; WAVEFORM;

EID: 3242662553     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-200407000-00006     Document Type: Review

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