Clinical review: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Gattinoni, Luciano ^a,b   Carlesso, Eleonora ^b   Langer, Thomas ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERINFLATION; HYPOXEMIA; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; INFLUENZA; LUNG; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; PANDEMIC; PHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LUNG; PANDEMICS; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 83755171696     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10490     Document Type: Review

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