Successful treatment of a severely injured soldier from Afghanistan with pumpless extracorporeal lung assist and neurally adjusted ventilatory support

International Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 177-179

  Bein, Thomas ^a   Osborn, Eric ^b   Hofmann, Hans Stefan ^a   Zimmermann, Markus ^a   Philipp, Alois ^a   Schlitt, Hans J ^a   Graf, Bernhard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disaster medicine; Extracorporeal lung assist; Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist; Traumatic lung injury

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG INJURY; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; NEURALLY ADJUSTED VENTILATORY ASSIST; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMPLESS EXTRACORPOREAL LUNG ASSIST; SOLDIER; THORAX;

EID: 77958152950     PISSN: 18651372     EISSN: 18651380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12245-010-0192-x     Document Type: Article

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