Small steps in the right direction for ventilator-induced lung injury: Prevention, prevention, prevention!

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 196-197

  Griffiths, Mark J D ^a   Finney, Simon J ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acute lung injury (ALI); acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); electronic medical record (EMR); ventilator induced lung injury (VILI)

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VENTILATOR INDUCED LUNG INJURY;

EID: 78651245677     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181ffe276     Document Type: Editorial

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