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Heliox in the treatment of status asthmaticus: case reports

Helium was discovered in 1868 by the French astronomer Pierre-Jules-César Janssen and was first used as a therapeutic treatment for airway obstruction by Barach almost 70 years later, in 1934. Heliox is characterized by its low density, which makes it more fluid under conditions of turbulence, thus...

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Autores principales: Carvalho, Inês, Querido, Sara, Silvestre, Joana, Póvoa, Pedro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira - AMIB 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4828097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27096682
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/0103-507X.20160005