Abstract | BACKGROUND: OBJECTIVES: To report the outcomes of patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome treated in a community hospital and compare these findings with those in previously published reports. METHODS: RESULTS: For the study patients, the survival rate was 64%; 29% died from respiratory failure alone. Analysis demonstrated that advanced age was not associated with mortality. Pressure-control ventilation was used for 31 patients and there was no significant difference in the presence of barotrauma in the pressure-control mode vs volume ventilation. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | D Willms, M Nield, I Gocka |
Journal | American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
(Am J Crit Care)
Vol. 3
Issue 5
Pg. 337-41
(Sep 1994)
ISSN: 1062-3264 [Print] United States |
PMID | 8000456
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
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Topics |
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Cause of Death
- Critical Care
- Female
- Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499
- Hospital Mortality
- Hospitals, Community
- Humans
- Male
- Medical Audit
- Middle Aged
- Positive-Pressure Respiration
(adverse effects, methods)
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome
(mortality, therapy)
- Retrospective Studies
- Severity of Illness Index
- Survival Rate
- Treatment Outcome
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