Mechanical ventilation in patients with ARDS: Is the lung's fortune the right ventricle's poison?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1825-1826

  Rehberg, Sebastian ^a,b   Ertmer, Christian ^a   Westphal, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; TIDAL VOLUME;

ACIDOSIS, RESPIRATORY; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; INTENSIVE CARE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TIDAL VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 73949151319     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1571-8     Document Type: Editorial

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