Choosing brain over lungs: Who wins?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1595-1596

  Golan, Eyal ^a   Fan, Eddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

critical care; intensive care units; mechanical ventilation; neurocritical care; neurosciences; outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BAROTRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PRESSURE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VENTILATOR INDUCED LUNG INJURY;

EID: 79957654296     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318215c0d1     Document Type: Editorial

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