Bouch C, Williams G. Recently published papers: pulmonary care, pandemics, and eugenics in surviving sepsis?
Crit Care 2006;
10:116. [PMID:
16469134 PMCID:
PMC1550845 DOI:
10.1186/cc4820]
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Abstract
Respiratory failure is one of the leading admission diagnoses on the critical care unit, and the journals have reflected this over the past few months. An understanding of the aetiology of pulmonary sepsis is important but your choice of ventilator gas humidification system is not. There are prophecies of more pandemics, but panic is futile because survival is all down to your genes.
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