How it feels to experience three different causes of respiratory failure

Practical Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-54

  Galtrey, Clare M ^a   Faulkner, Michael ^b   Wren, Damian R ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MINISTRY OF DEFENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR;

DECOMPRESSION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84856021053     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: 14747766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/practneurol-2011-000116     Document Type: Article

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