Clinical review: The role of ultrasound in estimating extra-vascular lung water

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Shyamsundar, Murali ^a   Attwood, Benjamin ^b   Keating, Liza ^a   Walden, Andrew P ^a  

^a ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; LUNG INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERMODILUTION; ULTRASOUND; ANIMAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ECHOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EXTRAVASCULAR LUNG WATER; HUMANS;

EID: 84884176899     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc12710     Document Type: Review

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