The patient-ventilator interaction has a third player: The endotracheal tube

Chest

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 957-959

  Vassilakopoulos, Theodoros ^a,b  

^a Evangelismos Hospital ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING MECHANICS; BRONCHOSPASM; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNX INJURY; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TACHYPNEA; TIDAL VOLUME; TRACHEA INJURY; VENTILATOR;

EID: 70350123897     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.09-1032     Document Type: Editorial

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