Right ventricular function evaluation in acute respiratory distress syndrome: Back to the future

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1909-1910

  Vieillard Baron, Antoine ^a   Bouferrache, Koceila ^a   Charron, Cyril ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

acute cor pulmonale; acute respiratory distress syndrome; echocardiography; intracardiac shunt; patent foramen ovale; positive end expiratory pressure; right ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COR PULMONALE; EDITORIAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SHUNTING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

EID: 77956197011     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181ee404f     Document Type: Editorial

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