Making a difference to that one, one (documented) patient at a time

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1503-1505

  Custer, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Extracorporeal life support; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Malignancy; Respiratory failure

Indexed keywords

CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE REGISTRY; EDITORIAL; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM CARE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

CHILD; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 67650477240     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31819d2d79     Document Type: Editorial

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