Improving survival in acute lung injury: Is there a role for treatment bundles?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2441-2442

  Kaisers, Udo ^a   Busch, Thilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Mortality; Refractory hypoxemia; Treatment bundles

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; EDITORIAL; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FLUID BALANCE; GAS EXCHANGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG INFECTION; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; TIDAL VOLUME; TRANSFUSION;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34748858020     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000284491.77562.18     Document Type: Editorial

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