Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Nov 2000
High survival in adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome treated by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, minimal sedation, and pressure supported ventilation.
To evaluate the results of treatment of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), minimal sedation, and pressure supported ventilation. ⋯ A high survival rate can be obtained in adult patients with severe ARDS using ECMO and pressure-supported ventilation with minimal sedation. Surgical complications are amenable to surgical treatment during ECMO. Bleeding problems can generally be controlled but require immediate and aggressive approach. It is difficult or impossible to decide when a lung disease is irreversible, and prolonged ECMO treatment may be successful even in the absence of any detectable lung function.
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Intensive care medicine · Nov 2000
Body position does not influence the location of ventilator-induced lung injury.
To ascertain whether the locations of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) are influenced by body position. ⋯ Body position affected the time course of the development of VILI, but it did not affect the location.
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Intensive care medicine · Nov 2000
Letter Case ReportsHemophagocytic syndrome in the critically ill.