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Thirty years of home mechanical ventilation in children: escalating need for pediatric intensive care beds

PURPOSE: To describe trends in pediatric home mechanical ventilation (HMV) and their impact on the use of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) beds. METHODS: Review of all children who had started HMV in a single center for HMV. RESULTS: Between 1979 and 2009, HMV was started in 197 patients [100 (5...

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Autores principales: Paulides, Fleur M., Plötz, Frans B., Verweij-van den Oudenrijn, Laura P., van Gestel, Josephus P. J., Kampelmacher, Mike J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3332376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22476447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-012-2545-9