Acute neuromuscular respiratory failure: A population-based study of aetiology and outcome in Northern Ireland

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 1062, 2014, Pages 201-204

  Carr, A S ^a   Hoeritzauer, A I ^a   Kee, R ^a   Kinney, M ^a   Campbell, J ^a   Hutchinson, A ^a   McDonnell, Gavin V ^a  

^a ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEURITIS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN THERAPY; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NORTHERN IRELAND; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

EID: 84896490823     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2013-132105     Document Type: Article

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