ALI and ARDS: Challenges and Advances, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

Lena M. Napolitano (Author), Krishnan Raghavendran (Author)

9781455710379, Elsevier Health Sciences

Hardback, published 5 August 2011

352 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.63 kg

This issue of Critical Care Clinics will focus on Severe Acute Respiratory DIstress Syndrome and dealing with it in the ICU. Topics will include: Challenges and Successes in ARDS Research;Mechanical ventilation with Lung Protective Strategies: What works?; Gene therapy for ALI/ARDS;High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in ALI/ARDS;Prone positioning therapy in ARDS;Recovery and Long-term outcome in ARDS; and Experimental models and emergeing hypotheses for ALI and ARDS

Subject Areas: Intensive care medicine [MMKL]