Mucus on the move: Embed it or expel it - The patient, the clinician, and now the ventilator

Respiratory Care

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1276-1279

  Ntoumenopoulos, George ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING MUSCLE; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FLOW RATE; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; HYPERINFLATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG MECHANICS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PALPATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEAK INSPIRATORY FLOW; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE SUPPORT VENTILATION; PREVALENCE; THORAX WALL; VENTILATOR; VISCOSITY; BRONCHUS DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; MUCUS; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; SUCTION;

BRONCHIAL DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; MUCUS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SUCTION;

EID: 58149154877     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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