Ultrasound lung comets: A clinically useful sign in acute respiratory distress syndrome/acute lung injury

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2869-2870

  Rajan, Govind R ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Chest echography; Extravascular lung water; Oleic acid; Ultrasound lung comets

Indexed keywords

OLEIC ACID;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODILUTION;

EID: 36448942609     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000288094.70325.E4     Document Type: Editorial

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