Acute lung injury : incidence and predictors of outcome with special reference to inhaled nitric oxide

• Main Author: Luhr, Owe
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Karolinska Institutet, Danderyds Sjukhus / Karolinska Institutet at Danderyds Hospital 1999
• Subjects: Respiratory distress syndrome; Adult; -drug-therapy; -mortality; Treatment; -outcome; Nitric oxide; therapeutic-use; administration-and-dosage; -adverse effects; Mutagenicity; tests; Chromosome aberrations; Risk factors; Logistic models; Prospective studies; Meier; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10616/44122

This work started out as a critical examination of the initial clinical experiences with inhalation of nitric oxide (INO) to patients with acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in Scandinavia 1991-1994. During this examination, we found that epidemiological data and...