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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...

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Autores principales: Mattingley, Jennifer S, Holets, Steven R, Oeckler, Richard A, Stroetz, Randolph W, Buck, Curtis F, Hubmayr, Rolf D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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