TY - JOUR
T1 - Acute respiratory distress syndrome
AU - Haller, Mathias
AU - Schelling, Gustav
AU - Briegel, Josef
AU - Mercat, Alain
AU - Teboul, Jean Louis
AU - Richard, Christian
AU - Blanch, Lluis
AU - Fernández, Rafael
AU - Mancebo, Jordi
AU - Perret, Claude H.
AU - Gilston, Alan
AU - Schuster, Daniel P.
AU - Kollef, Marin H.
PY - 1995/6/15
Y1 - 1995/6/15
N2 - To the Editor: With respect to the review article on the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) by Kollef and Schuster (Jan. 5 issue),1 only two randomized studies of extracorporeal gas exchange have been published,2,3 and neither could establish that this technique improved the outcome in patients with severe ARDS. However, even in the recently published study by Morris et al.,3 the equipment used was not the most up to date. Since hemorrhage was a major complication of extracorporeal gas exchange with high-dose heparin,2,3 the introduction of covalently heparinized systems in conjunction with percutaneously inserted cannulas was a major.
AB - To the Editor: With respect to the review article on the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) by Kollef and Schuster (Jan. 5 issue),1 only two randomized studies of extracorporeal gas exchange have been published,2,3 and neither could establish that this technique improved the outcome in patients with severe ARDS. However, even in the recently published study by Morris et al.,3 the equipment used was not the most up to date. Since hemorrhage was a major complication of extracorporeal gas exchange with high-dose heparin,2,3 the introduction of covalently heparinized systems in conjunction with percutaneously inserted cannulas was a major.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199506153322413
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199506153322413
M3 - Letter
C2 - 7646662
AN - SCOPUS:0029073240
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 332
SP - 1648
EP - 1650
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 24
ER -