Maintenance of tracheal tube cuff pressure: Where are the limits?

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Ferrer, Miquel ^a   Torres, Antoni ^a  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION SECRETION; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CUFF; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SECRETION; SUBGLOTTIC SECRETION; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; TRACHEAL TUBE CUFF PRESSURE; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; PRESSURE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PRESSURE; SWINE;

EID: 45549091208     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6194     Document Type: Note

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