Nebulised heparin: A new approach to the treatment of acute lung injury?

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Suter, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANTICOAGULATION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NEBULIZATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; NEBULIZER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; HEPARIN; HUMANS; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65849427350     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6947     Document Type: Note

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