Extracorporeal support and patient outcome: Credible causality remains elusive

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1551-1552

  Morris, Alan H ^a  

^a LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Acute respiratory failure; Lung protection

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646570215     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000216176.95227.86     Document Type: Article

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