Dexamethasone to prevent postextubation airway obstruction in adults: A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lee, Chao Hsien ^a   Peng, Ming Jen ^a   Wu, Chien Liang ^a,b  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NURSING AND MANAGEMENT COLLEGE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LARYNX EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRIDOR; TIDAL VOLUME; TREATMENT DURATION; WEANING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547663503     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc5957     Document Type: Article

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