Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory disease (SMARD): An ethical dilemma

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1691-1693

  Bush, Andrew ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; COUGHING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

HUMANS; INFANT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHIES OF CHILDHOOD; TRACHEOSTOMY; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33750204160     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0347-7     Document Type: Editorial

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