Ventilation Strategies and Adjunctive Therapy in Severe Lung Disease

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 709-733

  Kissoon, Niranjan ^a   Rimensberger, Peter C ^b   Bohn, Desmond ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; HELIOX; MILRINONE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HIGH FREQUENCY VENTILATION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG DYSPLASIA; LUNG VENTILATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OXYGENATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; VENTILATOR;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ANOXIA; CHILD; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HELIUM; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43849107105     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2008.02.012     Document Type: Review

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