Is esophageal pressure monitoring essential for the most critically ill?

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 830-831

  Berra, L ^a   Kacmarek, R M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG INJURY; OBESITY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; THORAX PRESSURE; VENTILATED PATIENT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 84939517813     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: 18271596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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