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Mechanical Ventilation and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygena tion in Acute Respiratory Insufficiency

Fichtner, Falk; Moerer, Onnen; Laudi, Sven; Weber-Carstens, Steffen; Nothacker, Monika; Kaisers, Udo.

Dtsch. Ãrztebl. int; 115 (50), 2018

Mechanical ventilation is life-saving for patients with acute respiratory insufficiency. In a German prevalence study, 13.6% of patients in intensive care units received mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours; 20% of these patients received mechanical ventilation as treatment for acute respiratory...

Oxigenación por Membrana Extracorpórea/enfermería, Oxigenación por Membrana Extracorpórea/instrumentación, Oxigenación por Membrana Extracorpórea/métodos, Respiración Artificial/instrumentación, Respiración Artificial/enfermería, Respiración Artificial/métodos, Insuficiencia Respiratoria/prevención & control, Insuficiencia Respiratoria/enfermería, Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos/organización & administración, Desconexión del Ventilador/instrumentación, Desconexión del Ventilador/enfermería

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Clinical Practice Guideline of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Since the first description of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a series of 12 patients in 1967 by Ashbaugh et al.1 , it still remains a major public health problem that incurs high health care costs and causes major mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) despite improvements in outcomes...