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Sarcopenia is an effective predictor of difficult-to-wean and mortality among critically ill surgical patients

BACKGROUND: Critically-ill surgical patients are at higher risk for sarcopenia, which is associated with worse survival. Sarcopenia may impair the respiratory musculature, which can subsequently influence the outcome of ventilator weaning. Although there are a variety of weaning parameters predictiv...

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Autores principales: Kou, Hao-Wei, Yeh, Chih-Hua, Tsai, Hsin-I, Hsu, Chih-Chieh, Hsieh, Yi-Chung, Chen, Wei-Ting, Cheng, Hao-Tsai, Yu, Ming-Chin, Lee, Chao-Wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6687130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31393937
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220699