Erschienen in:
01.08.2010 | Letter
Lung reaeration after surfactant instillation - caused by surfactant or caused by instillation?
verfasst von:
Marcus J Schultz
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Ausgabe 4/2010
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Excerpt
In this issue of
Critical Care, Lu and colleagues [
1] report significant and prolonged lung reaeration after intratracheal bolus instillation of porcine-derived surfactant. In this substudy of a larger randomized controlled trial of patients with acute lung injury [
2], the investigators elegantly demonstrate increased volumes of gas in poorly and non-aerated lung of patients who were treated with surfactant as compared with patients who received routine care. …