Effect of positive expiratory pressure and type of tracheal cuff on the incidence of aspiration in mechanically ventilated patients in an intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 409-413

  Lucangelo, Umberto ^a   Zin, Walter A ^c   Antonaglia, Vittorio ^a   Petrucci, Lara ^a   Viviani, Marino ^a   Buscema, Giovanni ^a   Borelli, Massimo ^b   Berlot, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bronchoscopy; Evans blue; Microinhalation; Positive expiratory pressure; Tracheal tube; Ventilator associated pneumonia; Volume controlled mechanical ventilation

Indexed keywords

EVANS BLUE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 38549158409     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000297888.82492.31     Document Type: Article

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