Hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 333-337

  Mortensen, Christian Risby ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide poisoning; Gas gangrene; Hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Necrotising fasciitis; Necrotising soft tissue infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIABETIC FOOT; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; GAS GANGRENE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MYOPIA; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEUROTOXICITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN SURGERY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 56949087621     PISSN: 09537112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cacc.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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