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Sizing the lung of mechanically ventilated patients
INTRODUCTION: This small observational study was motivated by our belief that scaling the tidal volume in mechanically ventilated patients to the size of the injured lung is safer and more 'physiologic' than scaling it to predicted body weight, i.e. its size before it was injured. We defin...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221993/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21320330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc10034 |