Permissive hypercapnia: What to remember

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-37

  Contreras, Maya ^a   Masterson, Claire ^a,b   Laffey, John G ^a,b,c  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

acidosis; acute lung injury; acute respiratory distress syndrome; hypercapnia; mechanical ventilation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ASTHMATIC STATE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; LUNG FLUID; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG INJURY; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; NONHUMAN; PERMISSIVE HYPERCAPNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VENTILATOR INDUCED LUNG INJURY; ACIDOSIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

ACIDOSIS; HUMANS; HYPERCAPNIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84920731760     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000000151     Document Type: Review

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