Morbidly obese patients with acute respiratory failure: Don't reach for the endotracheal tube yet!

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 956-957

  Pastores, Stephen M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Intensive care unit; Mechanical ventilation; Morbid obesity; Noninvasive ventilation; Outcome; Respiratory failure

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; OBESITY, MORBID; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947127822     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000257224.13456.CE     Document Type: Editorial

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