Electric impedance tomography, the final frontier is close: The bedside reality

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1996-1997

  De Carvalho, Werther Brunow ^a   Fonseca, Marcelo Cunio ^a   Johnston, Cíntia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Closed suctioning; Critical care; Electrical impedance tomography; Mechanical ventilation; Physiologic monitoring; Regional lung ventilation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BAROTRAUMA; BLOOD VOLUME; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC CURRENT; HUMAN; HYPEROXIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG PERFUSION; MORTALITY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIDAL VOLUME;

CHILD; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HUMANS; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547668792     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000277514.15154.ED     Document Type: Editorial

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