Do we really have other tools for respiratory failure besides mechanical ventilation?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1576-1577

  Das, Sumon K ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; mechanical ventilation; ventilatorinduced lung injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARBON DIOXIDE BREATHING; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

EID: 79957637668     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182148a58     Document Type: Editorial

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