Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Pneumothorax and mortality in the mechanically ventilated SARS patients: a prospective clinical study. | Available online http content 9 4 R440 Research Pneumothorax and mortality in the mechanically ventilated SARS patients a prospective clinical study Hsin-Kuo Kao1 Jia-Horng Wang2 Chun-Sung Sung3 Ying-Che Huang3 and Te-Cheng Lien4 Attending physician Department of Respiratory Therapy Taipei Veterans General Hospital Department of Medicine Taoyuan Veterans Hospital National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine Taipei Taiwan 2Attending physician and Chief of Department Department of Respiratory Therapy Taipei Veterans General Hospital National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine Taipei Taiwan 3Attending physician Department of Anesthesiology Taipei Veterans General Hospital National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine Taipei Taiwan 4Attending physician Department of Respiratory Therapy Taipei Veterans General Hospital National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine Taipei Taiwan Corresponding author Te-Cheng Lien kuohsink@ Received 16 Mar 2005 Revisions requested 22 Apr 2005 Revisions received 27 Apr 2005 Accepted 1 2 May 2005 Published 22 Jun 2005 Critical Care 2005 9 R440-R445 DOI 86 cc3736 This article is online at http content 9 4 R440 2005 Kao et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Pneumothorax often complicates the management of mechanically ventilated severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS patients in the isolation intensive care unit ICU . We sought to determine whether pneumothoraces are induced by high ventilatory pressure or volume and if they are associated with mortality in mechanically ventilated SARS patients. Methods We conducted a prospective clinical study. Forty-one mechanically ventilated SARS patients
