Erschienen in:
01.05.2004 | Editorial
How are children mechanically ventilated in pediatric intensive care units?
verfasst von:
Adrienne G. Randolph
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 5/2004
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Excerpt
In this issue of
Intensive Care Medicine, Farias and colleagues [
1] present the results of a multicenter prospective cohort study describing children mechanically ventilated for 12 h or more in one of 36 pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) over a 2-month period from April to May 1999. This study [
1], performed on behalf of the International Group of Mechanical Ventilation in Children (IGMVC), is important because it is unclear if reports of data from surveys asking PICU physicians how they think they practice represent reality. …