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Liquid fluorocarbon lavage to clear thrombus from the distal airways after severe pulmonary hemorrhage requiring extracorporeal life support (ECLS)

Massive pulmonary hemorrhage can pose a significant therapeutic challenge. Traditional methods of airway clearance using saline lavage and direct thrombus removal via bronchoscopy have limited ability to retrieve thrombi from deep airways. We report a patient on extracorporeal life support with mass...

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Autores principales: Horvat, Christopher M., Carcillo, Joseph A., Dezfulian, Cameron
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4501460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26236589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.02.010