Extracorporeal lung assist might avoid invasive ventilation in exacerbation of COPD

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 783-798

  Brederlau, Jörg ^a   Wurmb, Thomas ^b   Wilczek, Stefan ^a   Will, Kirstin ^a   Maier, Sebastian ^b   Kredel, Markus ^b   Roewer, Norbert ^b   Muellenbach, Ralf M ^b  

^a HELIOS KLINIKUM BERLIN BUCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHENIA; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; EXTRACORPOREAL LUNG ASSIST SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; LETTER; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; OBESITY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACIDOSIS, RESPIRATORY; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865812993     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00006012     Document Type: Letter

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