Saving lives with high-flow nasal oxygen

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 2225-2226

  Matthay, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HIGH FLOW NASAL OXYGEN THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DEAD SPACE; MORTALITY; NASAL CANNULA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT COMFORT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; DEVICES; FEMALE; MALE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

OXYGEN;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

EID: 84930525986     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1504852     Document Type: Editorial

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