Measures To Assess Potential Lung Injury During Ventilation Inadequate
Friday, August 15, 2008 - 07:14
in Health & Medicine
Ventilator-induced injury in the lungs is responsible for a vast number of deaths in acute respiratory distress syndrome. Even healthy surgical patients, who require temporary mechanical ventilation, are at risk of ventilator-induced lung injury. Although such injuries have been reduced tremendously over the last few decades, a new study suggests, they have much further to go.
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