Respiratory care

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 465-482

  Rozet, Irene ^a   Domino, Karen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain injury; extubation; hyperventilation; lung protective strategy of ventilation; PEEP; subarachnoid haemorrhage; tracheostomy; weaning

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFAZOLIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METICILLIN; OXYGEN; PLACEBO; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN TISSUE; BREATHING EXERCISE; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTUBATION; HEART EDEMA; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOXIA; INFECTION RISK; LARYNX EDEMA; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG TOXICITY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; OXYGEN TOXICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STRESS ULCER; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TIDAL VOLUME; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ATELECTASIS; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY EDEMA; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RESPIRATORY THERAPY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 36549066100     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.07.001     Document Type: Review

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