Beta-2-agonist treatment as a potential therapy for acute inhalational lung injury

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1841-1842

  Wiener Kronish, Jeanine P ^a   Matthay, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Airway obstruction; Alveolar epithelium; Beta agonists; Burns; Gas exchange; Inhalation injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; SALBUTAMOL;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG BURN; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG INJURY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; ALBUTEROL; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SHEEP; SMOKE INHALATION INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744529834     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000220050.03102.ED     Document Type: Editorial

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