Nitroglycerin can facilitate weaning of difficult-to-wean chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: A prospective interventional non-randomized study

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Routsi, Christina ^a   Stanopoulos, Ioannis ^b   Zakynthinos, Epaminondas ^a   Politis, Panagiotis ^a   Papas, Vassilios ^a   Zervakis, Demetrios ^a   Zakynthinos, Spyros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LUNG ARTERY CATHETER; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; NITROGLYCERIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; VENTILATOR WEANING;

EID: 78650585959     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc9326     Document Type: Article

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