Steroids are part of rescue therapy in ARDS patients with refractory hypoxemia: we are not sure

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 924-927

  Seam, Nitin ^a   Suffredini, Anthony F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLACEBO; STEROID;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; CAPILLARITIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG HEMOSIDEROSIS; LUNG INJURY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HYPOXIA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

HUMANS; HYPOXIA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; STEROIDS;

EID: 84958742204     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-015-4160-z     Document Type: Editorial

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