Independent lung ventilation in adult single-lung transplantation: Is it time for fast-track anesthesia and early tracheal extubation?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 825-

  Augoustides, John G T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EDEMA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EXTUBATION; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VENTILATION; MORTALITY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANESTHESIA; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548127659     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.04.058     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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